What is "dosage"

Usage examples of "dosage".

From the Bombay thorn apple comes the legendary potion of India, dhatura, which can stupefy, paralyze, or kill, depending upon the dosage, but which can also produce a medicine with remarkable effect upon internal bleeding and fever.

Maude and the day of her arrival at the little railway station, he displayed to Maude a more benign conduct, especially as regards the moderate dosage of fustigation which he found it necessary to inflict on her delectable bare buttocks to rouse her to meet and encompass his carnal passions.

Since this site was almost three kilometers closer to the piles, we had to double our dosage of nosegays to cope with the big stink.

At a quarter grain the dreams had begun to creep back in, so they held the dosage at a half.

Toby yielded an appreciable dosage of hydrocyanic acid, some undigested chocolate cream and enough silver foil for the forensic laboratory to decipher the letters RDAM on it.

Heavy stim dosage had left him with a palpitating heart and violent muscle spasms.

Doctor Varn and the Toll Valley Hospital where they had varied the basic compound and boosted the dosage to where they could not only guarantee you a bad trip, they could pop you permanently loose from reality if you had any potential fracture line anywhere in your psyche.

Yet The Shadow had managed to withstand the dosage, to overpower Lothkal and leave the Ashanti in his place.

Only a 193 last-minute memo from John Wood, pointing out that the dosage required to kill the African bees would also kill a third of the human population and render huge areas uninhabitable for years to come, prevented the activation of this plan.

To me giving her the Dilaudid in the dosages prescribed by the doctors was the most humane thing to do.

All drugs had side effects, and cocaine was liable to fluctuations in strength, making dosage calculations haphazard, so this was not too surprising, but there was a much more serious problem - as Freud was soon to realise when he watched the drug take over the life of a great friend of his, Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow.

The original formula had required injection, and initial treatments still did, but boosters had been so refined that they might be administered orally, a dosage being required at least every five years.

Sprayed over a crowd at the proper dosages, it would indeed put an unruly crowd to sleep.

By the time Christopher was seven, the Tofranil had been stopped and the dosage of Ritalin quadrupled.

Sellers recommended heavy dosages of drugs, phenobarbital, antidepressants, and, eventually, shock treatment.