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dosis
Dose means quantity in the following fields:
In nutrition, medicine, and toxicology:
- Dose (biochemistry), the quantity of something that may be eaten by or administered to an organism, or that an organism may be exposed to
- Absorbed dose, an amount of radiation received
- Dosing, the process of administering a measured amount of a medicine or chemical to an inanimate object or non-human animal
- Effective dose, the smallest amount of a substance required to produce a measurable effect on a living organism
- Equivalent dose, a measure of radiation dosage to tissue
- Maximum tolerated dose, the highest dose of a radiological or pharmacological treatment that will produce the desired effect without unacceptable toxicity.
- Optimal Biological Dose, the quantity of a radiological or pharmacological treatment that will produce the desired effect with acceptable toxicity.
- Reference dose, the United States Environmental Protection Agency's maximum acceptable oral dose of a toxic substance
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- Part of Speech: noun
- Synonym(s): dosing_₀, dosing_₀
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- Industry/Domain: Biotechnology; Health care; Life Sciences; Medical
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