dosage

See also: Dosage

English

Etymology

From French dosage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdəʊsɪd͡ʒ/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

dosage (countable and uncountable, plural dosages)

1. The administration of a medication etc, in a measured amount; dosing.
2. The addition of a small measured amount of a substance to something, e.g. sugar to wine.
3. The measured amount so administered or added (the dose), combined with the frequency of administration and the time period for which it is taken.

   Why did he give you only a single 500 mg dose? The correct dosage of this antibiotic is one 500 mg tablet twice a day for 10 days.

Derived terms

• dosage compensation
• macrodosage
• megadosage
• microdosage
• overdosage
• underdosage

Translations

medication

• Bulgarian: доза (bg) f (doza)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 劑量 / 剂量 (zh) (jìliàng)

• Dutch: dosering (nl) f
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: annostus (fi)
• French: dosage (fr) m
• German: Dosierung (de) f
• Greek: δοσολογία (el) f (dosología)
• Indonesian: dosis (id)
• Interlingua: dosage
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Malay: dosej
• Polish: dawka (pl) f
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: dozaj (ro) n, dozare (ro) f
• Russian: до́за (ru) f (dóza), дозиро́вка (ru) f (doziróvka)
• Spanish: posología (es) f
• Tibetan: སྨན་ཐུན (sman thun)
• Turkish: doz (tr), dozaj (tr)

See also

• posology

Anagrams

• dagoes, sea dog, sea-dog, seadog

French

Etymology

From dose +‎ -age.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /do.zaʒ/

• Audio:

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Noun

dosage m (plural dosages)

1. dosage (measured amount of a medication)

Derived terms

• liqueur de dosage

Descendants

• → Romanian: dozaj n
• → Turkish: dozaj

Further reading

• “dosage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Interlingua

Noun

dosage (plural dosages)

1. dosage, dose