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dose

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"measure of medicine"

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4 lettersPronunciation /ˈdəʊ̯s/Part of speech verb, nounSorted deosStarts with DEnds with E1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. administer a drug to

Word origin

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.

Used in a sentence

  • Why did he give you only a single 500 mg dose? The correct dosage of this antibiotic is one 500 mg tablet twice a day for 10 days.
  • a healthy dose of skepticism.
  • The prospect of becoming a father is a dose of reality that threatens to bring his dream world crashing down.

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