Dose

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Look up Dose, Dosis, dosage, doses, or dosis in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. 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

Medicine and toxicology

• Absorbed dose, an amount of radiation received
• Defined daily dose, a World Health Organization statistical measure of drug consumption
• Dose profile, taken by a radiation detector in order to characterise the radiation beams from medical linear accelerators
• Dosing, the process of administering a measured amount of a medicine or chemical to an inanimate object or non-human animal
• Effective dose (pharmacology), the amount of a substance required to produce an effect on a predefined percentage of a population
• 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
• Median lethal dose, is the dose of a toxic substance or radiation required to kill half the members of a tested population after a specified test duration
• 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

Dose may also refer to:

• Dose (album), a 1998 album by the jam band Gov't Mule
• Dose (magazine), a free daily Canadian magazine
• Dose (song), a song by the band Filter
• Gerd Dose (1942–2010), professor of English literature and culture at the University of Hamburg from 1985 to 2007

Dosage is a synonym for the biochemical term dose, but it can also refer to:

• A measured quantity of sugar, wine, and sometimes brandy added in the final step in sparkling wine production before bottling
• Dosage (album), the fourth studio album by the band Collective Soul
• Dosage form, a mixture of active and inactive components used to administer a medication
• Dosage Index, a mathematical figure used by breeders of race horses to quantify a horse's ability

See also

• Double Dose (disambiguation)

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