maximal dose

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The largest quantity of a drug that an adult can safely take within a given period.

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If laughter is the best medicine, The Comeback made you feel enough pain to need a dose—and then it delivered in spades.
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Stop Making Sense is the only current movie that's a dose of happiness from beginning to end.
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The “gold standard” dose is 30 minutes of 10,000 lux light, one hour of 5,000 lux light or two hours of 2,500 lux light.
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On Wednesday, anchor Shepard Smith gave Fox News viewers a dose of rationality.
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The story gets out that Obama skipped his usual afternoon dose of caffeine heading toward the U.N. meeting.
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But I couldn't get rid of the notion that he would hand me out the same dose he had given MacRae if only he had the power.
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He's getting a little stiff in the joints of his good nature, but a good dose of flattery'll limber him up considerable.
Dorothy at Skyrie|Evelyn Raymond
Nor could they forget the Sunday mornings when his reverence took his dose of egg-flip before church, in order to clear his voice.
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Great caution is necessary in the use of these powerful medicines to avoid an over-dose.
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Ill kill half Dunellen and all Mayfield with overdoses before another night, and then take a big dose myself.
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