bolus
Americannoun
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boluses
plural
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Pharmacology, Veterinary Medicine. a round mass of medicinal material, larger than an ordinary pill. bol.
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a soft, roundish mass or lump, especially of chewed food.
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bole.
noun
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a small round soft mass, esp of chewed food
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an intravenous injection of a single dose of a drug over a short period
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obsolete a large pill or tablet used in veterinary and clinical medicine
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another word for bole 2
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of bolus
1595–1605; < Late Latin bōlus clod of earth < Greek bôlos clod, lump; see bole 2
Example Sentences
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Nelson and other researchers fear their projects could be left behind if the U.S. government doesn’t ante up a similar bolus of funding.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 2, 2024
“The bolus of boats in and out of the locks is a delight, as is listening to the sea lions.”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 18, 2023
Finally, it pushes that bolus back to be swallowed, making sure no food enters the airways.
From Science Magazine ● May 24, 2023
“Persistent Vision” is a digital bolus of D.C. punk rock stretching from 1976 to 1992.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 10, 2022
Watching while they opened up the rocky hillside ground with pick and mattock and brought to light a great bolus of serpents perhaps a hundred in number.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
And public-health departments' ability to identify threats has been bolstered by boluses of federal money after the 2001 World Trade Center attack and subsequent anthrax attacks, and in the 2009 stimulus package.
From Nature ● Jul. 24, 2013
The Sears catalogue lists a variety of capsules, tinctures, pills and boluses calculated to cure almost any known ailment, physical or mental.
From Time Magazine Archive
But there was no help for it; he grinned and bore it, as he had the blisters, and boluses, &c., rolled the clothes round his shoulders, and off to the sleep of the just again.
From Hard Cash by Charles Reade
There are a few particularly nasty pills, draughts, and boluses, which we could find no means of sweetening; and with which, on that account, we have not attempted to meddle.
From The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue by John Leech
Well, these little ceremonies settled, the Doctor will, of course, pull out his phial, display his boluses, and take his leave with a promise of speedy health.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 25, 1841 by Various
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