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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



... value in the treatment of bronchitis. In the first stage of the disease, when the cough is hard and dry, small doses of castor oil and syrup of ipecac may be given to good advantage. The following dosage should be followed closely: 1st year, 2 drops castor oil, 2 drops syrup of ipecac, every two hours; 3rd year, 3 drops castor oil, 3 drops syrup of ipecac, every two hours; over 3 years, 4 drops castor oil, 4 drops syrup ...
— The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) - A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies • Grant Hague
... quantity must be greater the greater the amount of free acid present in the chloride. Under this condition, the gold is precipitated by light as a black powder if the liquid be in any bulk; and if merely washed over paper, a stain is produced, which, however feeble at first, under a certain dosage of the chloride, oxalate and free acid, goes on increasing from day to day and from week to week, when laid by in the dark and especially in a damp atmosphere, till it acquires almost the black of ink; the unsunned portion of the paper remaining unaffected, or so slightly as to render ...
— Photographic Reproduction Processes • P.C. Duchochois


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