Meaning bolus
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Single dose of a substance, originally a large pill. Dose of a substance administered by a single rapid intravenous injection. Concentrated mass of food ready to be swallowed. botanical pesticide Subs [..]
Source: sis.nlm.nih.gov

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(1) Regurgitated food.  (2) Large pill for treating cattle.
Source: beefusa.org

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soft, roundish mass or lump, especially of chewed food.
Source: nationalgeographic.org

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A mass of food ready to be swallowed or passing along the intestines. Used also by pharmacists to refer to large pills.
Source: vivo.colostate.edu

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A single dose of drug usually injected into a blood vessel over a short period of time. Also called bolus infusion.
Source: medindia.net

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(BOH-lus) an extra amount of insulin taken to cover an expected rise in blood glucose, often related to a meal or snack.
Source: diabetes.org

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(n) a small round soft mass (as of chewed food)(n) a large pill; used especially in veterinary medicine
Source: beedictionary.com

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A soft mass of chewed food. Alternatively, a single large dose of a medication given intravenously.
Source: health.harvard.edu

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N C precious stone
Source: latin-dictionary.org

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An apothecary. Apothecaries are so called because they administer boluses. Similarly Mrs. Suds is a washer-woman; Boots is the shoeblack of an inn, etc.
Source: bartleby.com

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A single dose of drug usually injected into a blood vessel over a short period of time. Also called bolus infusion.
Source: carcinoid.org

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Synonyms: bolus infusion Definition: (BOW-lus) A single dose of drug usually into a blood vessel over a short period of time. Compare with injection and infusion.
Source: phoenix5.org

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You know that medicine needs to be taken in the right amount, or dose. For someone with diabetes, a bolus means a single, large dose of insulin taken to handle a rise in blood glucose (a type of sugar [..]
Source: kidshealth.org

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a mass of food that has been chewed at the point of swallowing.
Source: uoitbio2013.wordpress.com

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packing insects into a ball or lump to carry back to the nest to feed young (Tree Swallows do this - I wonder if they use their saliva to glue them together?)
Source: sialis.org

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an extra amount of insulin
Source: felinediabetes.com

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A single dose of drug usually injected into a blood vessel over a short period of time. Also called bolus infusion.
Source: dana-farber.org

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Food rolled into a lump by the tongue.
Source: groups.molbiosci.northwestern.edu

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A botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist(1834-1911).
Source: en.wiktionary.org

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A large round mass of a drug for swallowing that is usually soft and not prepackaged. A dose of a drug or a drug injected all at once into the vein.
Source: pacificmedicallaw.ca

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A single dose of drug.
Source: lymphoma.org

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a medicinal dose, in the form of a round mass of medicine larger than an ordinary pill.
Source: aomol.msa.maryland.gov

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A morsel of food, already chewed, ready to be swallowed.
Source: sjogrens.org





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