bolus
noun
a round mass of medicinal material, larger than an ordinary pill. bol.
boluses
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pluralof bolus.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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
If in two days he is no better, take sixteen grains Antimonial Powder, made into four boluses; one night and morning for two days.
From The Dog by Dinks
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
This consists in swallowing after each full meal a few small sausage-shaped boluses of flour, honey and butter, flavoured with anise-seed or something similar.
From Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond by Budgett Meakin
