Dose Explained
Dose or Dosage may refer to:
Music
Science
- Dose (biochemistry), a measured quantity of a medicine, nutrient, or pathogen which is delivered as a unit.
- Dosage form, a mixture of active and inactive components used to administer a medication
- Dosing, feeding chemicals or medicines when used in small quantities
- Effective dose (pharmacology), a dose or concentration of a drug that produces a biological response
- Absorbed dose, a measure of energy deposited in matter from ionizing radiation
- Equivalent dose, a measure of cancer/heritable health risk in tissue from ionizing radiation
- Effective dose (radiation), a measure of cancer/heritable health risk to the whole body from ionizing radiation
- Median lethal dose, a measure of the lethal dose of a chemical agent, toxin, radiation, or pathogen
- DOSE, an acronym for dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin, and endorphins, the four main chemicals associated with happiness in humans
Other
- Dosa or dose, a thin pancake or crepe originating from South India
- Dose (magazine), a free daily Canadian magazine
- Döse, town in Lower Saxony, Germany
- Gerd Dose (1942–2010), professor of English literature at the University of Hamburg
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