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dosage

[doh-sij]
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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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Origin of dosage

First recorded in 1840–50; dose + -age
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  • "Get me some of the stuff and notes on the dosages they administered," he ordered.

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  • The dosages necessary for crude sewage and filter effluents were indicated and also the necessary contact periods.

British Dictionary definitions for dosages

dosage

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 (def. 3), dose (def. 4)
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Word Origin and History for dosages

dosage

n.

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

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dosages in Medicine

dosage

(dō′sĭj)
n.
  1. Administration of a therapeutic agent in prescribed amounts.
  2. Determination of the amount to be so administered.
  3. The amount so administered.
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