Bolus

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  • noun. A round mass.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A single, relatively large quantity of a substance, such as a dose of a drug, intended for therapeutic use and taken orally.
  • noun. A concentrated mass of a substance administered intravenously for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes.
  • noun. A soft mass of chewed food within the mouth or digestive tract.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A soft round mass of anything medicinal, larger than an ordinary pill, to be swallowed at once.
  • noun. Figuratively, anything disagreeable, as an unpalatable doctrine or argument, that has to be accepted or tolerated.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A rounded mass of anything, esp. a large pill.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A round mass of something, especially of chewed food in the mouth or alimentary canal.
  • noun. A single, large dose of a drug, especially one in that form.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a small round soft mass (as of chewed food)
  • noun. a large pill; used especially in veterinary medicine
  • Word Usage
    "In reading messages I see the word bolus or something like that."
    Hypernym
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    ball  globe  lozenge  orb  pill  
    Rhyme
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    Same Context
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    ball  balloon  bite  bladder  blob