Medicine
- Bolus (medicine), 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 (digestion), a ball-shaped mass moving through the digestive tract
- Bolus tracking, technique used in computed tomography imaging, to visualise vessels more clearly
- Triple bolus test, a medical diagnostic procedure used to assess pituitary function
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“Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienest who does not debase his theory of the healthful with a theory of the virtuous.... The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
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—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)