单词 | dose |
释义 | dose (once / 487 pages) 1nv 2n 3n A dose is the amount of medicine you're supposed to take. A bottle of aspirin has the recommended dose printed on its side. When your doctor prescribes medication, she tells you what dose you should take, whether it's one pill twice a day or two teaspoons just before bedtime. You can also get a dose of something else: having x-rays gives you a small dose of radiation, for example, and watching the news instead of your favorite cartoon can be said to give you a dose of reality. The Greek root of dose is dosis, "a portion prescribed." WORD FAMILYdose: dosage, dosed, doses, dosing, overdose+/dosage: dosages/overdose: overdosed, overdoses, overdosing USAGE EXAMPLES“Sky on Fire” is certainly an adrenaline dose, but hardly a remedy for the action blahs. Los Angeles Times(Dec 01, 2016) All infected students received the required two doses of a vaccine that protects against mumps, as well as measles and rubella. Washington Times(Dec 01, 2016) There was a fifty-fifty chance that the dose I’d been given was a placebo, but it soon became clear that I’d taken the real thing. Time(Dec 01, 2016) 1 1n a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time Syn|Hypo|Hyper dosage booster, booster dose, booster shot, recall dose an additional dose that makes sure the first dose was effective draft, draughta dose of liquid medicine hita dose of a narcotic drug lethal dosethe size dose that will cause death lozenge, pill, tab, tableta dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet bolusa large pill; used especially in veterinary medicine capsulea pill in the form of a small rounded gelatinous container with medicine inside drageepill that is a sugar-coated medicated candy sleeping capsule, sleeping draught, sleeping pill, sleeping tableta soporific drug in the form of a pill (or tablet or capsule) medicament, medication, medicinal drug, medicine (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease 2n the quantity of an active agent (substance or radiation) taken in or absorbed at any one time Syn|Hyper dosage indefinite quantity an estimated quantity 3v treat with an agent; add (an agent) to The ray dosed the paint Hyper process, treat subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition 4v administer a drug to 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper drug anaesthetise, anaesthetize, anesthetise, anesthetize, put out, put under administer an anesthetic drug to dope, dope upgive a narcotic to o.d., overdosedose too heavily narcotise, narcotizeadminister narcotics to poisonadminister poison to etherise, etherizeanesthetize with ether cocainise, cocainizeanesthetize with cocaine chloroformanesthetize with chloroform freezeanesthetize by cold soupdope (a racehorse) intoxicatehave an intoxicating effect on, of a drug blockinterrupt the normal function of by means of anesthesia medicate, medicine treat medicinally, treat with medicine n street name for lysergic acid diethylamide 3n a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact Syn|Hypo|Hyper Cupid's disease, Cupid's itch, STD, VD, Venus's curse, sexually transmitted disease, social disease, venereal disease, venereal infection genital herpes, herpes genitalis an infection caused by herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) that is usually transmitted by sexual contact; marked by recurrent attacks of painful eruptions on the skin and mucous membranes of the genital area clap, gonorrhea, gonorrhoeaa common venereal disease caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae; symptoms are painful urination and pain around the urethra granuloma inguinale, granuloma venereuma venereal disease caused by a bacterium of the genus Calymmatobacterium; characterized by a pimply rash of the skin in the genital and groin region lues, lues venerea, pox, syph, syphilisa common venereal disease caused by the treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta) LGV, lymphogranuloma venereum, lymphopathia venereuminfectious disease caused by a species of chlamydia bacterium; transmitted by sexual contact; characterized by genital lesions and swelling of lymph nodes in the groin chlamydiaa sexually transmitted infection caused by bacteria of the genus Chlamydia primary syphilisthe first stage; characterized by a chancre at the site of infection secondary syphilisthe second stage; characterized by eruptions of the skin and mucous membrane tertiary syphilisthe third stage; characterized by involvement of internal organs especially the brain and spinal cord as well as the heart and liver neurosyphilissyphilis of the central nervous system contagion, contagious disease any disease easily transmitted by contact |
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