| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Noun Plural | 1. Plural inflection of the noun bolus.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Noun Base (bolus) | 1. A small round soft mass (as of chewed food).[Wordnet]. 2. A large pill; used especially in veterinary medicine.[Wordnet]. 3. A rounded mass of anything, esp. a large pill.[Websters]. | |
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Date "BOLUSES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references) |
Specialty Definition: bolus
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Geology | 1) A mass of chewed food. 2) Any mass or blob travelling through a tube. (references) | ||
| Literature | 1: George Colman adopts the name for his apothecary, who wrote his labels in rhyme, one of which was- 2: But the patient being shaken, instead of the mixture, died. 3: To be well shaken"; 4: Bolus An apothecary. Apothecaries are so called because they administer boluses. Similarly Mrs. Suds is a washer-woman; Boots is the shoeblack of an inn, etc. 5: "When taken,. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
| Physics | A material usually having approximately the density and effective atomic number of issue, used in radiotherapy to fill up void spaces, thus delineating the irradiated volume as a simple geometric form, or placed upon the entry surface of the subject, to bring the point of maximum dose to that surface. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Religion | A single dose of drug usually injected into a blood vessel over a short period of time. Also called bolus infusion. (references) | ||
| Slang in 1811 | BOLUS. A nick name for an apothecary. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | ||
| Wikipedic | A bolus (from Latin bolus, ball), in biology, is any kind of ball-shaped organic structure of an organism or of its discharged substances. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: bolus
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Vigilante Bolus | The Vigilante bolus is used with both dairy and beef cattle to reduce the number of flies in an area. It works by releasing an IRG (Insect Growth Regulator) that stops the development of insects before they become flies. Essentially preventing them from reproducing. The bolus, when used with an insecticidal ear tag, devastates the populations of Horn, Barn and Face flies. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: bolus
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Bolus alba | Mining | See: kaolin. (references) | |
| Bolus infusion | Religion | A single dose of drug usually injected into a blood vessel over a short period of time. Also called bolus. (references) | |
| Bolus injection | Health | The injection of a drug (or drugs) in a high quantity (called a bolus) at once, the opposite of gradual administration (as in intravenous infusion). (references) | |
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Topics by Level of Interest: bolus | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Esophageal food bolus obstruction | 28 | Bolus | 15 | |
| Bolus | 15 | Bolus (digestion) | 3 | |
| Harry Bolus | 10 | Bolus (medicine) | 5 | |
| Triple bolus test | 6 | Bolus tracking | 4 | |
| Bolus (medicine) | 5 | Brian Bolus | 4 | |
| Brian Bolus | 4 | Esophageal food bolus obstruction | 28 | |
| Bolus tracking | 4 | Harry Bolus | 10 | |
| Bolus (digestion) | 3 | Malvina Bolus | 3 | |
| Malvina Bolus | 3 | Triple bolus test | 6 | |
| Vigilante Bolus | 2 | Vigilante Bolus | 2 | |
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