dose
/ˈdoʊ̯s/ noun B2- A measured portion of medicine taken at any one time. · Why did he give you only a single 500 mg dose? The correct dosage of this antibiotic is one 500 mg tablet twice a day for 10 days.
- The quantity of an agent (not always active), substance, or radiation administered or experienced at any one time.
- Anything disagreeable that must be taken.
- A good measure or lengthy experience of something. · a healthy dose of skepticism.
- A venereal infection.
Plural doses
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“If Oz had taken a dose of the same courage he gave me,” added the Lion, “he would have been a brave man.”
I’m going to give her a dose of ipecac first of all.”
I gave her every drop of ipecac in that bottle and when the last dose went down I said to myself--not to Diana or Young Mary Joe, because I didn’t want to worry them any more than they were worried, but I had to say it to myself just to relieve my feelings--‘This is the last lingering hope and I fear, tis a vain one.’ But in about three minutes she coughed up the phlegm and began to get better right away.
By tea-time, however, the dose had been enough, and Mr.
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