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Dosage   /dˈoʊsədʒ/  /dˈoʊsɪdʒ/   Listen
noun
Dosage  n.  
1.
(Med.) The administration of medicine in doses; specif., a scheme or system of grading doses of medicine according to age, etc.
2.
The process of adding some ingredient, as to wine, to give flavor, character, or strength.
3.
Same as dose 1; as, 200 mg q.i.d.
4.
The quantity of a medicine or other substance given to an animal, expressed as a quantity per body weight; as, use a dosage of 10 milligrams per kilogram
5.
The quantity of radiation given to or absorbed by an object; as, a maximum dosage of 1 mrad per day is allowed.
Synonyms: dose.






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"Dosage" Quotes from Famous Books



... again, opened his locker, took out his depilator, and ran it quickly over his face. Then, from his assortment of bottles, he began picking over his morning dosage. Vitamins, of course; got to keep plenty of vitamins in the system, or it goes all to pot on you. A, B1, B2, B12, C, ... and on down the alphabet and past it to A-G. All-purpose mineral capsules, presumably containing every element useful ...
— Cum Grano Salis • Gordon Randall Garrett

... quieted. The morphine should be given not less than an hour and a half before bronchoscopy to allow time for the onset of the soporific and antispasmodic effects which are the desiderata, not the analgesic effects. Dosage is more dependent on temperament than on age or body weight. Atropine is advantageously added to morphine in bronchoscopy for foreign bodies, not only for the usual reasons but for its effect as an antispasmodic, and especially for ...
— Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy - A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery • Chevalier Jackson

... herein contains the exact amount of the necessary constituents, and the harmonious system of dosage which I have worked out, consists of reducing every compound dosage to one gram, which weight is equal to about one quarter teaspoonful of the regular preparation, made lighter and fluffier through ...
— Valere Aude - Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration • Louis Dechmann

... Platonic ladder that leads up to the vision of ideal beauty of soul, if his ideal be not excess of brawn, or mere brute strength, but the true proportion represented by the classic or mean temperance balanced like justice between all extremes. Hard, patient, regular work, with the right dosage for this self-cultural end, has thus at the same time a unique ...
— Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene • G. Stanley Hall

... Salophen in fifteen grain doses. If necessary take another dose in two hours. Should the pains reappear the next day, repeat the dosage. ...
— Searchlights on Health - The Science of Eugenics • B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols



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