Dose

Dose means quantity in the fields of nutrition, medicine, and toxicology. Dosage is a synonym for the term dose.

Particular uses in this context include:

• Dose (biochemistry), the quantity of something that may be eaten by or administered to an organism, or that an organism may be exposed to
  • Overdose, intaking more than your required dose.
• Absorbed dose, an amount of radiation received
• Defined daily dose, a World Health Organization statistical measure of drug consumption
• Dosage form, a mixture of active and inactive components used to administer a medication
• Dose profile, taken by a radiation detector in order to characterise the radiation beams from medical linear accelerators
• Dosing, the process of administering a measured amount of a medicine or chemical to an inanimate object or non-human animal
• Effective dose (pharmacology), the amount of a substance required to produce an effect on a predefined percentage of a population
• Equivalent dose, a measure of radiation dosage to tissue
• Maximum tolerated dose, the highest dose of a radiological or pharmacological treatment that will produce the desired effect without unacceptable toxicity
• Median lethal dose, is the dose of a toxic substance or radiation required to kill half the members of a tested population after a specified test duration
• Optimal Biological Dose, the quantity of a radiological or pharmacological treatment that will produce the desired effect with acceptable toxicity
• Reference dose, the United States Environmental Protection Agency's maximum acceptable oral dose of a toxic substance