dose

Εννοια (Αγγλικός)

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 or experienced at any one time.
3. Anything disagreeable that must be taken.
4. A good measure or lengthy experience of something.
5. A venereal infection.
6. (colloquial) A cold; a common, viral illness of the nasal passage, sometimes with fever.

Verb

1. To administer a dose to.
2. To prescribe a dose.
3. To transmit a venereal disease.

Verb

Archaic form of doze.

Προφέρεται ως (IPA)

/dəʊs/

Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

Borrowed from Middle French dose, from Late Latin dosis, from Ancient Greek δόσις (dósis, “a portion prescribed”, literally “a giving”), used by Galen and other Greek physicians to mean an amount of medicine, from δίδωμι (dídōmi, “to give”). Doublet of doos.

Προτάσεις

Increasing the dose of the drug may be able to restore the original response .

Η αύξηση της δόσης του φαρμάκου μπορεί να είναι σε θέση να αποκαταστήσει την αρχική απόκριση.