n. 剂量, 服用量

vt. 给药, (用药)医治

vi. 服药

[化] 剂量; 药量

[医] 量, [一次]剂量, 一剂

Dose \Dose\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dosed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{dosing}.] [Cf. F. doser. See {Dose}, n.]
1. To proportion properly (a medicine), with reference to the
patient or the disease; to form into suitable doses.

2. To give doses to; to medicine or physic to; to give
potions to, constantly and without need.

A self-opinioned physician, worse than his
distemper, who shall dose, and bleed, and kill him,
``secundum artem.'' -- South

3. To give anything nauseous to.


Dose \Dose\ (d[=o]s), n. [F. dose, Gr. do`sis a giving, a dose,
fr. dido`nai to give; akin to L. dare to give. See {Date}
point of time.]
1. The quantity of medicine given, or prescribed to be taken,
at one time.

2. A sufficient quantity; a portion; as much as one can take,
or as falls to one to receive.

3. Anything unpleasant that one is obliged to take; a
disagreeable portion thrust upon one; also used
figuratively, as to give someone a dose of his own
medicine, i. e. to retaliate in kind.

I am for curing the world by gentle alteratives, not
by violent doses. -- W. Irving.

I dare undertake that as fulsome a dose as you give
him, he shall readily take it down. -- South.

4. a quantity of radiation which an object absorbs, or to
which it is exposed.
[PJC]