单词 | dosage |
释义 | dosagen. 1. a. The administration of medicine in doses: esp. in reference to the size of the dose. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment by medicine or drug > [noun] > in doses dosage1876 loading1965 carbo-loading1975 1876 R. Bartholow Pract. Treat. Materia Med. ii. 167 As regards doseage, from fifteen to thirty grains every two, three, or four hours..is usually the necessary quantity. 1876 R. Bartholow Pract. Treat. Materia Med. ii. 391 [No] arbitrary rules of dosage can be laid down. 1881 Times 18 Apr. 10/4 Hahnemann's idea of dosage. b. Used similarly in radiotherapy of X-rays and other ionizing radiation: see dose n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment by radiation > [noun] > dose or dosage dosage1893 pastille dose1909 dose1912 split-dose1947 1893 A. S. Eccles Sciatica 56 Care must be taken not to exceed the dosage either in strength or duration. 1912 W. J. S. Bythell & A. E. Barclay X-ray Diagnosis & Treatm. 121 It is necessary to be extremely cautious until some idea is obtained as to the amount of dosage the skin will stand. 1918 R. Knox Radiogr. & Radio-therapeutics (ed. 2) ii. 424 The various systems of measuring the X-ray dosage. 1918 R. Knox Radiogr. & Radio-therapeutics (ed. 2) ii. 511 The most difficult question in radium treatment is that of dosage. 1928 New Statesman 28 July 510/1 The most careful and experienced practitioner may sometimes cause an X-ray burn after dosages which he has used..without injury on hosts of occasions. 1938 R. W. Lawson tr. G. von Hevesy & F. A. Paneth Man. Radioactivity (ed. 2) xxiv. 258 The maximum daily dosage of γ-rays. 1959 Lab. Investig. 8 173 This lack of certainty..of the scope of autoradiographic method for radiation dosage measurement prompted us to investigate the problem. 2. The operation of dosing; addition of a dose or doses, e.g. to wine, etc.: see dose n. 2a, dose v. 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > admixture or addition as ingredient > of a specific amount dosage1849 1849 C. A. Harris Dict. Dental Sci. & Med. Terminol. 219/2 Dosage, applied to an analysis in which the regent [sic] is added in measured quantities, from a graduated tube, to a measured and weighed solution of the assay. 18.. De Colange I. 138 The dosage varies with the quality of the wine. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1849 |
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