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dosis

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
In medicine and toxicology:

  • Absorbed dose, an amount of radiation received
  • Dosing, the process of administering a measured amount of a medicine or chemical to an inanimate object or non-human animal
  • Effective dose, the smallest amount of a substance required to produce a measurable effect on a living organism
  • 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.
  • 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
Dosage is a synonym for the biochemical term dose!

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