noun
- exact amount of a medicine or extent of some other treatment to be given or taken at one time or at stated intervals
- amount of a punishment or other unpleasant experience undergone at one time
- the amount of radiation delivered to a particular area or to a given part of the body
- Slang a venereal infection, esp. gonorrhea
Origin:
ME < OFr < ML dosis < Gr, orig., a giving < IE base *do-, to give: see date
transitive verb dosed, dosing
- to give a dose or doses to
- to give (medicine, etc.) in doses
Origin:
< dosethe
intransitive verb
to take a dose or doses of medicine