Dose or Dosage may refer to:
Music
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''Dose'' (Gov't Mule album), 1998
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''Dose'' (Latin Playboys album)
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''Dosage'' (album), by the band Collective Soul
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"Dose" (song), a 2018 song by Ciara
* "Dose", song by Filter from the album ''
Short Bus''
Science
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Dose (biochemistry)
A dose is a measured quantity of a medicine, nutrient, or pathogen that is delivered as a unit. The greater the quantity delivered, the larger the dose. Doses are most commonly measured for compounds in medicine. The term is usually applied to ...
, a measured quantity of a medicine, nutrient, or pathogen which is delivered as a unit.
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Dosage (pharmacology), prescribed regimen of medication administration, including amount, frequency, and duration
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Dosage form
Dosage forms (also called unit doses) are pharmaceutical drug products presented in a specific form for use. They contain a mixture of active ingredients and inactive components ( excipients), configured in a particular way (such as a capsule she ...
, a mixture of active and inactive components used to administer a medication
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Dosing
Dosing generally applies to feeding chemicals or medicines when used in small quantities.
For medicines the term ''dose (biochemistry), dose'' is generally used. In the case of inanimate objects the word dosing is typical. The term dose titratio ...
, feeding chemicals or medicines when used in small quantities
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Effective dose (pharmacology), a dose or concentration of a drug that produces a biological response
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Absorbed dose
Absorbed dose is a dose quantity which represents the specific energy (energy per unit mass) deposited by ionizing radiation in living matter. Absorbed dose is used in the calculation of dose uptake in living tissue in both radiation protecti ...
, a measure of energy deposited in matter from ionizing radiation
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Equivalent dose, a measure of cancer/heritable health risk in tissue from ionizing radiation
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Effective dose (radiation), a measure of cancer/heritable health risk to the whole body from ionizing radiation
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Median lethal dose
In toxicology, the median lethal dose, LD50 (abbreviation for " lethal dose, 50%"), LC50 (lethal concentration, 50%) or LCt50 is a toxic unit that measures the lethal dose of a given substance. The value of LD50 for a substance is the dose re ...
, a measure of the lethal dose of a chemical agent, toxin, radiation, or pathogen
* DOSE, an acronym for
dopamine
Dopamine (DA, a contraction of 3,4-dihydroxyphenethylamine) is a neuromodulatory molecule that plays several important roles in cells. It is an organic chemical of the catecholamine and phenethylamine families. It is an amine synthesized ...
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oxytocin
Oxytocin is a peptide hormone and neuropeptide normally produced in the hypothalamus and released by the posterior pituitary. Present in animals since early stages of evolution, in humans it plays roles in behavior that include Human bonding, ...
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serotonin
Serotonin (), also known as 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT), is a monoamine neurotransmitter with a wide range of functions in both the central nervous system (CNS) and also peripheral tissues. It is involved in mood, cognition, reward, learning, ...
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endorphins, the four main chemicals associated with happiness in humans
Other
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Dosa or dose, a thin pancake or crepe originating from South India
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''Dose'' (magazine), a free daily Canadian magazine
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Döse, town in Lower Saxony, Germany
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Gerd Dose (1942–2010), professor of English literature at the University of Hamburg
See also
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Double Dose (disambiguation)
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Effective dose (disambiguation)
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Overdose (disambiguation)
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