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dose medical definition
noun Abbr. D.
- A specified quantity of a therapeutic agent, such as a drug, prescribed to be taken at one time or at stated intervals.
- The amount of radiation administered as therapy to a given site.
- To give or prescribe something, such as medicine, in specified amounts.
- To give someone a dose, as of medicine.
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