dosing
剂量,计量,加药,定量
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Definitions
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- : 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.
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dosed, dos·ing.
- : to administer in or apportion for doses.
- : to give a dose of medicine to.
- : to add sugar to during production.
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dosed, dos·ing.
- : to take a dose of medicine.
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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.