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boluses
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n. (plural of bolus English)
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bolus \Bo"lus\, n.; pl. Boluses . [L. bolus bit, morsel; cf. G. ? lump of earth. See Bole , n., clay.] A rounded mass of anything, esp. a large pill.
Usage examples of boluses.
When a half-starving medical man felt that he must give his patient draught and boluses for which he could charge him, he was in a pitiable position and too likely to persuade himself that his drugs were useful to his patient because they were profitable to him.
His sister Ruth, an advanced hypochondriac, with the persistence of a missionary, continually pressed upon him strange boluses, pills and draughts.
Mawmsey that it must lower the character of practitioners, and be a constant injury to the public, if their only mode of getting paid for their work was by their making out long bills for draughts, boluses, and mixtures.
Peacock on a similar occasion had administered a series of boluses which were not otherwise definable than by their remarkable effect in bringing Mrs.
He viewed Captain Aubrey with approval and listened conscientiously to the effect of the potions, boluses and pills.
He examined the patient, agreed with Dr Maturin's diagnosis, agreed with the proposed remedies, hurried off to compound them himself and returned directly, bearing bottles, pills, and boluses.