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.

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
• Indonesian: dosis (id)
• Interlingua: dosage
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Malay: dosej
• 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