dosage

American  

[doh-sij] / ˈdoʊ sɪdʒ /

noun

1. the administration of medicine in doses.

2. the amount of medicine to be given.

3. Physics. dose.

4. the process of adding a sugar solution to champagne and other sparkling wines before final corking.

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dosage British  

/ ˈdəʊsɪdʒ /

noun

1. the administration of a drug or agent in prescribed amounts and at prescribed intervals

2. the optimum therapeutic dose and optimum interval between doses

3. another name for dose dose

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Etymology

Origin of dosage

First recorded in 1840–50; dose + -age

Example Sentences

Clara Davis, an influential pediatrician, taught that children possessed innate wisdom, and thus their preferences and cravings were a better guide to what they should eat than the dreary and tyrannical “dosage method.”

From The Wall Street Journal

A UK-wide shortage of the strongest form of the painkiller - the 30/500mg dosage - is ongoing due to the Indian government delaying the authorisation to import ingredients required to make the drug there.

From BBC

For women, the most common effects are excess hair growth, acne and weight gain, which are usually reversible with reduction in dosage or discontinuation.

From BBC

Felicia Zigman, 54, who has been using estradiol patches for about nine months, said that a pharmacist told her to talk to her doctor about increasing her dosage, given the shortage of starting-dosage patches.

From The Wall Street Journal

When a cancer cell gains or loses a chromosome, it changes the dosage of many genes at once.

From Science Daily

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