boluses
- plural of bolus.
Example Sentences
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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
These 20 boluses being repeated three times, the patient found himself perfectly well.
From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Bache, Franklin
Now, Willoughby, it seems, has found the public appetite so great for these thought-saving boluses of knowledge—unpleasant drugs, as it were, put up into gelatine capsules—that he needs assistance.
From The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel by Locke, William John
And as for pills and boluses and bottled goods guaranteed to reduce your weight, and as for all these patented treatments and proprietary preparations which you see boosted in the papers—bah!
From One Third Off by Sarg, Tony
