- (
medical )医学 a single amount of a drug that is given at one time synonym dose(单次给药的)剂量 - (specialist)
a small round mass of a substance, especially food that has been chewed to make it soft before it is swallowed 小团;小丸;(尤指咀嚼后吞咽的)食团
Word Originmid 16th cent. (denoting a large pill): via late Latin from Greek bōlos ‘clod’.