Bolus may refer to:

Geography

Bolus, Iran Bolus () is a village in Meshgin-e Gharbi Rural District of Qosabeh District in Meshgin Shahr County, Ardabil province, Ardabil province, Iran. Demographics Population At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village's population was 30 ...

, a village in Ardabil Province, Iran * Bolus, or Baulus, an Anatolian village on the site of ancient

Berissa Berissa (), also spelled ''Berisa'', ''Verisa'', or ''Verissa'', was a city in the late Roman province of Pontus Polemoniacus, in Asia Minor, which Kiepert and W. M. Ramsay have identified with the modern village of Baulus (also known as ''Bolus' ...

Medicine

Bolus (digestion) In digestion, a bolus () is a ball-like mixture of food and saliva that forms in the mouth during the process of chewing (which is largely an adaptation for plant-eating mammals). It has the same color as the food being eaten, and the saliv ...

, a ball-shaped mass moving through the digestive tract *

Bolus (medicine) In medicine, a bolus (from Latin '' bolus'', ball) is the administration of a discrete amount of medication, drug, or other compound within a specific time, generally 1–30 minutes, to raise its concentration in blood to an effective level. The ...

, the administration of a drug, medication or other substance in the form of a single, large dose * Bolus (radiation therapy), a tissue equivalent substance used in radiation therapy *

Bolus tracking Contrast CT, or contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CECT), is X-ray computed tomography (CT) using radiocontrast. Radiocontrasts for X-ray CT are generally iodine-based types. This is useful to highlight structures such as blood vessels that ...

, technique used in computed tomography imaging, to visualise vessels more clearly *

Triple bolus test __NOTOC__ A combined rapid anterior pituitary evaluation panel or triple bolus test or a dynamic pituitary function test is a medical diagnostic procedure used to assess a patient's pituitary function. A triple bolus test is usually ordered and int ...

, a medical diagnostic procedure used to assess pituitary function

People with the name

Bolus of Mendes Bolus of Mendes (, ''Bōlos ho Mendēsios''; fl. 3rd century BC) was a philosopher, a neopythagorean writer of works of esoterica and medicine, in Ptolemaic Egypt. Both the ''Suda'', and a later work mistakenly attributed to Eudokia Makrembolitissa ...

(3rd century BC), esoteric Greek philosopher *

Brian Bolus John Brian Bolus (31 January 1934 – 7 May 2020) was an English cricketer who played in seven Test matches from 1963 to 1964. Cricket commentator Colin Bateman stated, "Bolus was essentially an accumulator, dependably totting up 25,000 run ...

(born 1934), former English cricketer who played in 7 Tests from 1963 *

Frank Bolus Frank Bolus (2 November 1864 – 15 September 1939) played first-class cricket for Somerset in 10 matches in the 1893 and 1894 seasons. He was born at Wolverhampton and died at Coventry. Bolus was used by Somerset as a lower-order right-handed ...

(1864–1939), English cricketer for Somerset *

Harry Bolus Harry Bolus (28 April 1834 – 25 May 1911) was a South African botanist, botanical artist, businessman and philanthropist. He advanced botany in South Africa by establishing bursaries, founding the Bolus Herbarium and bequeathing his library an ...

(1834–1911), South African botanist, botanical artist, businessman and philanthropist *

Edward John Bolus Edward John Bolus (born 5 May 1879) was a poet and writer, civil servant, and clergyman. He spent his civil service career in India, which appears prominently in his writing. Life Early years Born 5 May 1879 to Harriet S. Bolus and her husband ...

(1897–?), poet, civil servant, and clergyman *

Louisa Bolus Harriet Margaret Louisa Bolus ''née'' Kensit (31 July 1877, Burgersdorp – 5 April 1970, Cape Town) was a South African botanist and taxonomist, and the longtime curator of the Bolus Herbarium, from 1903. Bolus also has the legacy of authori ...

(Harriet Margaret Louisa Bolus née Kensit, 1877–1970), South African botanist *

Malvina Bolus Malvina Marjorie Bolus, (July 4, 1906 – April 6, 1997) was a Canadian historian and art collector, best known as the editor of the Hudson's Bay Company The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), originally the Governor and Company of Adventurers ...

(1906–1997), Canadian historian and art collector, and editor of the Hudson's Bay Company magazine ''The Beaver''

Other uses

* Bolus, a type of space tether, in spaceflight *

Bolus armenus Armenian bole, also known as bolus armenus or bole armoniac, is an earthy clay, usually red, native to Armenia but also found in other places. The term Armenian was later referred to a specific quality of the clay. Originally used in medication, i ...

, an example of a bole (a reddish soft variety of clay used as a pigment) *

Bolus Herbarium The Bolus Herbarium was established in 1865 from a donation by Harry Bolus of his extensive herbarium and library to the South African College, which later became the University of Cape Town. Its collection of specimens numbers over 320 000, mak ...

, an herbarium at the University of Cape Town established in 1865 from a donation by Harry Bolus * Bolus hook, an instrument in a

Jacquard loom The Jacquard machine () is a device fitted to a loom that simplifies the process of manufacturing textiles with such complex patterns as brocade, damask and matelassé. The resulting ensemble of the loom and Jacquard machine is then called a Jac ...

Zeeuwse Bolus A Zeeuwse bolus () or Zeeuwse bolussen is a sweet pastry of Jewish origin from the Dutch province of Zeeland. They are made by baking a white bread dough rolled in dark brown sugar in a spiral shape, lemon zest (rare and only in some parts of th ...

, a pastry from the Netherlands * Bolus (Belgium), a Belgian pastry

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