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Dose:
Dose:
The quantity of drug, or dosage form, administered to a subject at a given time; for example, the usual dose of aspirin for relief of pain in an adult is 300-600 milligrams. Dose may be expressed in terms appropriate to a specific dosage form, i.e., one teaspoonful of a liquid medication, rather than the weight of drug in the teaspoonful. Dose may be described as an absolute dose (the total amount administered to a subject) or as a relative dose (relative to some property of the subject as body weight or surface area, mg/kg, or mg/m 2).
Cf. Dosage, Multiple Dose Regimens
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