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dosage
dos‧age/ˈdəʊsɪdʒ $ ˈdoʊ-/ noun [COUNTABLE USUALLY SINGULAR] the amount of a medicine or drug that you should take at one time, especially regularly high/low dosage dosage of ▪ He was recommended a high dosage of morphine. increase/reduce the dosage ▪ The daily dosage is steadily reduced over several weeks. • • • THESAURUS ▪medicine noun [UNCOUNTABLE AND COUNTABLE]a substance used for treating illness : ▪ Certain medicines should not be taken with alcohol. ▪ Has he taken his medicine? ▪pill noun [COUNTABLE]a small piece of medicine that you swallow : ▪ She managed to swallow the pill with a sip of water. ▪ The doctor gave him some pills. ▪ sleeping pills ▪ diet pills ▪ contraceptive pills ▪tablet noun [COUNTABLE] especially British English a small piece of solid medicine : ▪ She's now on four tablets a day. ▪ a five-day course of tablets ▪ sleeping tablets ▪ anti-malaria tablets ▪antibiotics/aspirin/codeine etc : ▪ The doctor put him on a course of antibiotics. ▪ Why don’t you take some aspirin? ▪ The tablets contain codeine, which is unsuitable for people with asthma. ▪capsule noun [COUNTABLE]a small tube-shaped container with medicine inside that you swallow whole : ▪ a bottle of 500 capsules of vitamin C ▪ I advised her to take four to six garlic capsules a day for the duration of the treatment. ▪caplet noun [COUNTABLE]a small smooth pill that is slightly longer than it is wide - used especially on bottles and containers : ▪ In small type, the consumer is warned not to take more than one caplet per day. ▪eye/ear drops liquid medicine that you put into your eye or ear : ▪ Remember — if you 're using eye drops for your hay fever, leave your contact lenses out. ▪cream noun [UNCOUNTABLE AND COUNTABLE] especially British English (also lotion especially American English) a thick smooth substance containing medicine, that you put on your skin : ▪ an antibiotic cream ▪ antiseptic cream ▪ skin cream ▪drug noun [COUNTABLE]a medicine or a substance for making medicines : ▪ a drug used to treat malaria ▪ There are a wide range of different drugs on the market. ▪dosage noun [COUNTABLE USUALLY SINGULAR]the amount of medicine that you should take at one time : ▪ The dosage should be reduced to 0.5 mg. ▪ It’s important to get the dosage right. ▪medication noun [UNCOUNTABLE AND COUNTABLE]medicine or drugs given to someone who is ill : ▪ He takes medication for his diabetes. ▪ She’s on medication (=taking medication), having suffered from depression for a number of years.
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ADJECTIVE daily ▪ After the first two weeks of prednisolone, the daily dosage was steadily reduced to zero over the ensuing weeks. ▪ In the meantime, Maurice Indig plans to continue his daily dosage of the Internet in his fight with the disease. ▪ All authorities agreed that adding the substance to water was the best way to limit the daily dosage. high ▪ Most patients affected have been young women with connective tissue disorders who receive aspirin regularly in high dosage. low ▪ Therefore, these drugs should be initiated at low dosages and gradually increased. ▪ Administration may need to be restarted in lower dosage if losses continue. ▪ Consequently, the drug must be started in low dosage and built up very gradually. VERB give ▪ At any given dosage, 2-4 days are required to reach steady state. ▪ Adjunctive therapy with salmon calcitonin can be given in a dosage of 200 units every 6 hours. ▪ A given increase in dosage, therefore, may produce a disproportionately large increase of serum level. increase ▪ Recurrence of severe headache should immediately signal the need to increase the dosage and to subsequently reduce it in more gradual decrements. ▪ The natural inclination is to increase the dosage to continue the benefits. use ▪ Hence patients requiring smaller doses of levodopa who are troubled with nausea cardiac arrhythmias, or hypotension may use this dosage form. ▪ In most patients, it is desirable to use dosages that maintain a pulse rate greater than 60. ▪ The other anticonvulsants should be used in whatever dosage is required to maintain therapeutic blood levels. 4. EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Lowering the dosage can stop some side effects. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Full details of all these treatments, with dosage rates, may be obtained from Ref. 3. ▪ In most patients, it is desirable to use dosages that maintain a pulse rate greater than 60. ▪ It is important to conduct a complete course of treatment at the required dosage with these products. ▪ It usually occurs in the first 6 months of treatment and does not show any correlation with the dosage. ▪ Meaning: I would drive him and me nuts trying to find the right dosage. ▪ Therefore, these drugs should be initiated at low dosages and gradually increased. ▪ These are available in various dosages, but may have to be made up specially to deliver the required dose. ▪ This unit provided the necessary information which allowed the most effective system of dosage with mepacrine and Paludrine to be established.
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