dosage

[doh-sij]

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noun

the administration of medicine in doses.
the amount of medicine to be given.
Physics. dose.

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

Origin of dosage

First recorded in 1840–50; dose + -age

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Examples from the Web for dosage

Contemporary Examples

It also warns about reducing the dosage if the patient uses narcotic pain relievers or other opioids or sedatives.
Defending Jackson's Doctor
Gerald Posner
July 27, 2009

Historical Examples

The dosage, mixed in the coffee he had given them earlier, was a light one.
Pariah Planet
Murray Leinster
Have we reduced the mortality of disease by a change in dosage?
The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure
Edward Hooker Dewey
This lesson of dosage is one which cannot be learned too thoroughly.
Tobacco and Alcohol
John Fiske
In the practical application of any remedy the dosage is most important.
The Fundamentals of Bacteriology
Charles Bradfield Morrey
The individual reaction to these drugs varies greatly and no rule for dosage can be dogmatically laid down.
Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension:
Louis Marshall Warfield

British Dictionary definitions for dosage

dosage

noun

the administration of a drug or agent in prescribed amounts and at prescribed intervals
the optimum therapeutic dose and optimum interval between doses
another name for dose (def. 3), dose (def. 4)

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Word Origin and History for dosage

n.

1867; see dose + -age, perhaps on model of French dosage (1812).

dosage in Medicine

dosage

(dō′sĭj)

Administration of a therapeutic agent in prescribed amounts.
Determination of the amount to be so administered.
The amount so administered.

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Examples from the Web for dosage

Contemporary Examples

It also warns about reducing the dosage if the patient uses narcotic pain relievers or other opioids or sedatives.

Historical Examples

The dosage, mixed in the coffee he had given them earlier, was a light one.

Have we reduced the mortality of disease by a change in dosage?

This lesson of dosage is one which cannot be learned too thoroughly.

In the practical application of any remedy the dosage is most important.

The individual reaction to these drugs varies greatly and no rule for dosage can be dogmatically laid down.

dosage

Word Origin and History for dosage

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Origin of dosage