What's the difference between dome and dose?

Dome


Definition:

  • (n.) A building; a house; an edifice; -- used chiefly in poetry.
  • (n.) A cupola formed on a large scale.
  • (n.) Any erection resembling the dome or cupola of a building; as the upper part of a furnace, the vertical steam chamber on the top of a boiler, etc.
  • (n.) A prism formed by planes parallel to a lateral axis which meet above in a horizontal edge, like the roof of a house; also, one of the planes of such a form.
  • (n.) Decision; judgment; opinion; a court decision.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Dome-shaped, fungiform papillae were scattered among these filiform papillae.
  • (2) Ethanol, an agent that increases membrane fluidity, stimulates AC to a much greater extent in homogenates from the 22 month than from the 22 day or 90 day rat bladder dome.
  • (3) And there is plenty of beauty in London - seeing Parliament Square in the snow, the dome of St Paul's rising above the City, the simple perfection of a Georgian terrace or the quietly elegant streets of Mayfair.
  • (4) In the infant and small child, when most repairs are done, nose tip projection is due more to the alar dome component than to the columella.
  • (5) It said it hoped to have a small containment dome in place by late today.
  • (6) Iron Dome receives $176m in annual funding from the US, but the House of Representatives voted in May to double the amount .
  • (7) Steps wind down a rugged rock face to a bedroom, while light floods in from round skylights in the domed ceiling above.
  • (8) Mucosla nodularity of the bladder dome, even without gastrointestinal symptoms, should raise the possibility of regional enteritis.
  • (9) The shadow chancellor told the newspaper the Dome was a mistake and said: "I think you should learn from your mistakes."
  • (10) In both groups clinical and radiological results were better when the cartilage layer at the talar dome was found to be intact at the time of surgical intervention.
  • (11) Histopathological examination of one resected aneurysmal dome confirmed the diagnosis of transmural arteritis secondary to SLE.
  • (12) In addition, the cells receive synapses from numerous nonimmunoreactive terminals including a wide range of different dome-shaped terminals and various scalloped or glomerular terminals.
  • (13) A review of arthroscopic, radiographic, and clinical data of all patients undergoing ankle arthroscopy at our center provided the following diagnoses: talar dome osteochondral fractures, loose bodies, accessory ossicles, talar dome cyst with loose bodies, and chronic synovitis.
  • (14) Pilgrims from all over the world, many weeping and clutching precious mementos or photographs of loved ones, jostle beneath its soaring domes every day.
  • (15) Despite Antarctica's simultaneous warming and cooling phenomena, the second lowest temperatures ever measured on Earth was recorded in July at Dome Argus in the centre of the Antarctic plateau.
  • (16) This domed white building is now a magnet for national expectations, and many wonder whether it will sag under the weight of so much anticipation.
  • (17) The tumor was diffusely hemorrhagic and occupied the dome of the bladder.
  • (18) So here we are in Chester's Mill, a snoozy Maine town about to be rent asunder by the arrival of a mysterious transparent dome, shooming down like a giant jam jar on its coffee shops and car lots and effectively cutting its residents off from the rest of civilisation.
  • (19) Lisa and Brian converted the old wooden schoolhouse six years ago and the design is bright and eclectic, think retro school desks, a funky red kitchen, a clear geodesic dome in the garden for stargazing and chill-out time and a giant chess set on the lawn.
  • (20) Membranous (M) cells within the dome epithelium of ileal Peyer's patches have been shown to provide selective antigen entry for mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue.

Dose


Definition:

  • (n.) The quantity of medicine given, or prescribed to be taken, at one time.
  • (n.) A sufficient quantity; a portion; as much as one can take, or as falls to one to receive.
  • (n.) Anything nauseous that one is obliged to take; a disagreeable portion thrust upon one.
  • (n.) To proportion properly (a medicine), with reference to the patient or the disease; to form into suitable doses.
  • (n.) To give doses to; to medicine or physic to; to give potions to, constantly and without need.
  • (n.) To give anything nauseous to.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This trend appeared to reverse itself in the low dose animals after 3 hr, whereas in the high dose group, cardiac output continued to decline.
  • (2) The resulting dose distribution is displayed using traditional 2-dimensional displays or as an isodose surface composited with underlying anatomy and the target volume.
  • (3) Age difference did not affect the mean dose-effect response.
  • (4) The rash presented either as a pityriasis rosea-like picture which appeared about three to six months after the onset of treatment in patients taking low doses, or alternatively, as lichenoid plaques which appeared three to six months after commencement of medication in patients taking high doses.
  • (5) Neutrons induced a dose-dependent cytotoxicity and mutation frequency in the AL cells.
  • (6) Urinary ANF immunoreactivity was significantly enhanced by candoxatril in both groups (P less than 0.05 and P less than 0.01 in groups 1 and 2, respectively), with a more pronounced effect evident at the higher dose (P less than 0.01).
  • (7) Open field behaviors and isolation-induced aggression were reduced by anxiolytics, at doses which may be within the sedative-hypnotic range.
  • (8) The fraction of the viral dose which became cell associated was independent of the incubation temperature and increased with increasing target membrane concentration.
  • (9) The second group only with Haloperidol (same dose).
  • (10) The level of gadd45 mRNA increased rapidly after X rays at doses as low as 2 Gy.
  • (11) The cumulative incidence of grade II and III acute GVHD in the 'low dose' cyclosporin group was 42% compared to 51% in the 'standard dose' group (P = 0.60).
  • (12) The diffusion of Myocamicin in the prostatic tissue of patients undergoing prostatectomy after a single oral dose of 600 mg has been studied.
  • (13) In X-irradiated litters, almost invariably, the incidence of anophthalmia was higher in exencephalic than in nonexencephalic embryos and the ratio of these incidences (relative risk) decreased toward 1 with increasing dose.
  • (14) Similarly, doses of deferoxamine at the time of the study were not different.
  • (15) A survey carried out two and three years after the launch of the official campaign also showed a reduction in the prevalence of rickets in children taking low dose supplements equivalent to about 2.5 micrograms (100 IU) vitamin D daily.
  • (16) A quantitative comparison of tissue distribution and excretion of an orally administered sublethal dose of [3H]diacetoxyscirpenol (anguidine) was made in rats and mice 90 min, 24 hr, and 7 days after treatment.
  • (17) The inhibitory effects were stronger in A549 lung cancer cells than in HEL cells at the same TFP dose.
  • (18) At the highest dose of chloroquine tested (500 microM), a slightly greater increase in insulin binding and a decrease in insulin degradation were observed in fetal cells as compared with adult cells.
  • (19) Pituitary weight, mitotic index and chromosomes were studied in male rats following a single or repeated dose of estradiol-benzoate for a total period of 210 days.
  • (20) Estimates of the risk probability for each dose level and sacrifice time are found utilizing the sample likelihood as the posterior density.