noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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daily
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After the first two weeks of prednisolone, the daily dosage was steadily reduced to zero over the ensuing weeks.
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In the meantime, Maurice Indig plans to continue his daily dosage of the Internet in his fight with the disease.
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All authorities agreed that adding the substance to water was the best way to limit the daily dosage .
high
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Most patients affected have been young women with connective tissue disorders who receive aspirin regularly in high dosage .
low
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Therefore, these drugs should be initiated at low dosages and gradually increased.
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Administration may need to be restarted in lower dosage if losses continue.
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Consequently, the drug must be started in low dosage and built up very gradually.
■ VERB
give
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At any given dosage , 2-4 days are required to reach steady state.
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Adjunctive therapy with salmon calcitonin can be given in a dosage of 200 units every 6 hours.
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A given increase in dosage , therefore, may produce a disproportionately large increase of serum level.
increase
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Recurrence of severe headache should immediately signal the need to increase the dosage and to subsequently reduce it in more gradual decrements.
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The natural inclination is to increase the dosage to continue the benefits.
use
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Hence patients requiring smaller doses of levodopa who are troubled with nausea cardiac arrhythmias, or hypotension may use this dosage form.
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In most patients, it is desirable to use dosages that maintain a pulse rate greater than 60.
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The other anticonvulsants should be used in whatever dosage is required to maintain therapeutic blood levels. 4.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Lowering the dosage can stop some side effects.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Full details of all these treatments, with dosage rates, may be obtained from Ref. 3.
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In most patients, it is desirable to use dosages that maintain a pulse rate greater than 60.
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It is important to conduct a complete course of treatment at the required dosage with these products.
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It usually occurs in the first 6 months of treatment and does not show any correlation with the dosage .
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Meaning: I would drive him and me nuts trying to find the right dosage .
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Therefore, these drugs should be initiated at low dosages and gradually increased.
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These are available in various dosages, but may have to be made up specially to deliver the required dose.
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This unit provided the necessary information which allowed the most effective system of dosage with mepacrine and Paludrine to be established.