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dosing

/dohs/US // doʊs //UK // (dəʊs) //

剂量,计量,加药,定量

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a quantity of medicine prescribed to be taken at one time.
    • : a substance, situation, or quantity of anything analogous to medicine, especially of something disagreeable: Failing the exam was a hard dose to swallow.
    • : an amount of sugar added in the production of champagne.
    • : Physics. Also called ab·sorbed dose. the quantity of ionizing radiation absorbed by a unit mass of matter, especially living tissue, measured in grays: although increasingly disfavored, in the U.S. an absorbed dose may still be measured in rads.exposure dose.
    • : Slang. a case of gonorrhea or syphilis.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    dosed, dos·ing.

    • : to administer in or apportion for doses.
    • : to give a dose of medicine to.
    • : to add sugar to during production.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    dosed, dos·ing.

    • : to take a dose of medicine.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as incure
as indrug

Examples

  • She recalled the 2009 swine flu pandemic, when wealthy countries like the US scooped up most doses of the H1N1 vaccine.

  • The company announced in September that 350,000 people had received doses of its candidates at that point.

  • In high doses, formic acid-producing ants can even chase off bears.

  • Even if the vaccine doses remain fully intact and untampered with throughout the entire production and storage process, there are still plenty of opportunities for vaccination efforts to be compromised.

  • Other types of vaccines need cells grown in the lab to make millions of doses.

  • Both were in the habit of dosing themselves with the Jenkins pearls, a dangerous remedy—witness Mora, so quickly carried off.

  • This was done partly out of philanthropy, partly because nothing is so efficient as dosing to take away prejudice!

  • Only fancy a farmer dosing a sheep with mutton broth, and adding, for its stomach's sake, a little wine!

  • Then followed hours of anxious labor, holding and dosing the sick animals, but it was all in vain.

  • Keep no patent medicines about; then you will be less likely to be dosing with them.