overdosagen.
/ˌəʊvəˈdəʊsɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈoʊvərˌdoʊsɪdʒ/ The administering or taking of too large a dose (of medicine, a drug, etc.); (also occasionally) an instance of this.
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1887 Science 2 Sept. 114/2 Overdosage at the outset will certainly awaken the sleeper.
1915 G. W. Crile in A. F. Rowland Origin & Nature Emotions 188 Adrenalin alone causes hyperchromatism followed by chromatolysis, and in overdosage causes the destruction of some brain-cells.
1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) iii. 51 The condition..has been produced experimentally by overdosage with vitamin D.
1968 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 114 880/1 Many patients do not take the drugs that are prescribed for them... Both overdosage and underdosage carry side-effect hazards.
2001 N. Jones Rough Guide Trav. Health i. 51 Paracetamol [is] very dangerous if you exceed the recommended dosage, as even a relatively small overdosage can cause irreparable liver damage.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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