Definition of dose

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Dose (n.) A sufficient quantity; a portion; as much as one can take, or as falls to one to receive..

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Underdose :: Underdose (n.) A dose which is less than required; a small or insufficient dose.
Paradoses :: Paradoses (pl. ) of Parado.
Homeopathy :: Homeopathy (n.) The art of curing, founded on resemblances; the theory and its practice that disease is cured (tuto, cito, et jucunde) by remedies which produce on a healthy person effects similar to the symptoms of the complaint under which the patient suffers, the remedies being usually administered in minute doses. This system was founded by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, and is opposed to allopathy, or heteropathy..
Dose :: Dose (n.) To give doses to; to medicine or physic to; to give potions to, constantly and without need..
Operative :: Operative (a.) Producing the appropriate or designed effect; efficacious; as, an operative dose, rule, or penalty..
Weak :: Weak (v. i.) Not thoroughly or abundantly impregnated with the usual or required ingredients, or with stimulating and nourishing substances; of less than the usual strength; as, weak tea, broth, or liquor; a weak decoction or solution; a weak dose of medicine..
Dose :: Dose (n.) Anything nauseous that one is obliged to take; a disagreeable portion thrust upon one.
Horse-drench :: Horse-drench (n.) A dose of physic for a horse.
Dosed :: Dosed (imp. & p. p.) of Dos.
Horse-drench :: Horse-drench (n.) The appliance by which the dose is administred.
Nodosity :: Nodosity (n.) The quality of being knotty or nodose; resemblance to a node or swelling; knottiness.
Nodous :: Nodous (a.) Nodose; knotty; knotted.
Narcotic :: Narcotic (n.) A drug which, in medicinal doses, generally allays morbid susceptibility, relieves pain, and produces sleep; but which, in poisonous doses, produces stupor, coma, or convulsions, and, when given in sufficient quantity, causes death. The best examples are opium (with morphine), belladonna (with atropine), and conium..
Capsule :: Capsule (n.) A small cylindrical or spherical gelatinous envelope in which nauseous or acrid doses are inclosed to be swallowed.
Administer :: Administer (v. t.) To apply, as medicine or a remedy; to give, as a dose or something beneficial or suitable. Extended to a blow, a reproof, etc..
Nodose :: Nodose (a.) Having nodes or prominences; having the alternate joints enlarged, as the antennae of certain insects..
Drop :: Drop (n.) Any medicine the dose of which is measured by drops; as, lavender drops..
Overdose :: Overdose (n.) Too great a dose; an excessive dose.
Paludose :: Paludose (a.) Growing or living in marshy places; marshy.
Drench :: Drench (v. t.) To cause to drink; especially, to dose by force; to put a potion down the throat of, as of a horse; hence. to purge violently by physic..
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