(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.
Dowse
Definition:
(v. t.) To plunge, or duck into water; to immerse; to douse.
(v. t.) To beat or thrash.
(v. i.) To use the dipping or divining rod, as in search of water, ore, etc.
(n.) A blow on the face.
Example Sentences:
(1) The last time central Kansas saw a good dowsing was in April last year.
(2) Ian Pearson, the Labour minister who oversaw export controls at the time, was emailed a detailed dossier about McCormick entitled "Dowsing rods endanger lives" in November of that year but his ministerial office did not reply.
(3) The devices were compared to dowsing rods and magic wands by people who used them, although their sales in Iraq and other war zones helped make McCormick a £55m fortune, and allowed him to buy a £3.5m mansion in Bath formerly owned by the actor Nicolas Cage.
(4) In January 2009, the whistleblower, who does not want to be named, sent a dossier detailing the scam that began with a hard-hitting title – "Dowsing rods endanger lives" – to James Arbuthnot, the chairman of the Commons defence select committee.
(5) If governments – dowsing sympathy for the BBC amid a welter of other cuts, playing the hardest of hardball – can blow away independence thus, what's the point of pretending that refurbishing frail defence mechanisms can put Auntie together again?
(6) After this dowsing it wouldn't be a surprise if these police were protesting for an improvement in their own working conditions.
(7) Positive responses (dowsing signals) were evoked from 14 male "dowsers" by exposure to artificial electromagnetic (ac) fields.
(8) Children are welcome to ring the bell held by the medieval figure of Jack-smite-the-clock while you inspect the damage wrought by the Suffolk-born iconoclast William "Basher" Dowsing during the civil war: he scrubbed the faces from all the finely painted apostles and saints on the rood screen.
(9) Radcliffe then added a "Yet" at the prompting of his director, Michael Dowse.
(10) Dowse sold the film as the "perfect romcom … girls will come see it and boys won't throw up in their own mouths".