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Dose or Dosage may refer to:

Music

Science

  • Dose (biochemistry), a measured quantity of a medicine, nutrient, or pathogen which is delivered as a unit.
  • Dosage form, a mixture of active and inactive components used to administer a medication
  • Dosing, feeding chemicals or medicines when used in small quantities
  • Effective dose (pharmacology), a dose or concentration of a drug that produces a biological response
  • Absorbed dose, a measure of energy deposited in matter from ionizing radiation
  • Equivalent dose, a measure of cancer/heritable health risk in tissue from ionizing radiation
  • Effective dose (radiation), a measure of cancer/heritable health risk to the whole body from ionizing radiation
  • Median lethal dose, a measure of the lethal dose of a chemical agent, toxin, adiation, or pathogen

Other

  • Dosa or dose, a thin pancake or crepe originating from South India
  • Dose (magazine), a free daily Canadian magazine
  • Döse, town in Lower Saxony, Germany
  • Gerd Dose (1942–2010), professor of English literature at the University of Hamburg

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