Dose

Noun

 * 1) A measured portion of medicine taken at any one time.
 * 2) The quantity of an agent (not always active) substance or radiation administered at any one time.

Verb

 * 1) to administer a dose
 * 2) to prescribe a dose

Adjectives
minimum; enormous; nauseous; attenuated; curative; large; graduated (pi); tremendous; unpalatable; minute; occasional.

Thesaurus
French disease, Spanish pox, VD, acquired syphilis, administer, amount, anoint, apply, bag, balanitis gangrenosa, bang, batch, bestow, booster, booster dose, booster shot, budget, bunch, cerebral tabes, chancre, chancroid, chunk, clap, claps, climatic bubo, clutch, congenital syphilis, constitutional syphilis, count, deal, deck, dispense, dope, dosage, dose of clap, dose with, draft, dram, dropping, drug, drug packet, embrocate, enforce upon, fifth venereal disease, fix, force, force upon, general paresis, give, gob, gonorrhea, granuloma inguinale, granuloma venereum, great pox, group, hard chancre, heap, hit, hunk, injection, large amount, latent syphilis, lay on, locomotor ataxia, lot, mainlining, measure, medicate, mess, mete out to, morbus Gallicus, narcotic shot, nip, number, oil, overdose, pack, paralytic dementia, parcel, paresis, part, popping, portion, potion, pox, prescribe, prescribe for, pudendal ulcer, put on, put upon, quantity, ration, salve, shot, simple chancre, skin-popping, slug, small amount, social disease, soft chancre, sum, syph, syphilis, syphilitic meningoencephalitis, tabes, tabes dorsales, tertiary syphilis, tropical bubo, venereal disease

Etymology
From δόσις:, used by Galen and other Greek physicians to mean an amount of medicine, from δίδωμι:.

Pronunciation




Noun

 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: dozo
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: δόση
 * Ancient: δόσις


 * Ido: dozo
 * Italian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * West Frisian: doaze


 * Bulgarian:
 * Esperanto: dozo
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:


 * Greek: δόση
 * Italian: dose
 * Russian:, порция
 * Spanish:

Verb

 * Finnish:


 * Finnish:

Anagrams

 * does, odes, SOED

Pronunciation




Noun

 * 1) proportion
 * 2) dose

Noun

 * 1) dose
 * 2) quantity, amount, measure
 * 3) deal (great-good) (gran dose-buona dose)

Derived terms

 * dosare

Anagrams

 * sedo, sedò, sode