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dose
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Contents [hide]
1 English
1.1 Etymology
1.2 Pronunciation
1.3 Noun
1.3.1 Translations
1.4 Verb
1.4.1 Translations
1.5 Anagrams
2 Afrikaans
2.1 Noun
3 French
3.1 Pronunciation
3.2 Noun
3.3 Verb
4 Italian
4.1 Noun
4.1.1 Derived terms
4.2 Anagrams


[edit] English[edit] EtymologyFrom French dose, from Medieval Latin dosis, from Ancient Greek d?s?? (dosis, “a portion prescribed”, literally “a giving”), used by Galen and other Greek physicians to mean an amount of medicine, from d?d?µ? (“to give”).

[edit] Pronunciation(UK) IPA: /d??s/
Audio (US) (file)

Rhymes: -??s
[edit] Noundose (plural doses)

1.A measured portion of medicine taken at any one time.
2.The quantity of an agent (not always active) substance or radiation administered at any one time.
3.A venereal infection.
1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 382:
It would be very expensive to cure a dose here, as well as unbelievably painful
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