An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
DOSAGE
dose, dosage
(noun) a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time
dose, dosage
(noun) the quantity of an active agent (substance or radiation) taken in or absorbed at any one time
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
dosage (countable and uncountable, plural dosages)
The administration of a medication etc, in a measured amount; dosing.
The addition of a small measured amount of a substance to something, e.g. sugar to wine.
The measured amount so administered or added; the dose.
Anagrams
• dagoes, sea dog, sea-dog, seadog
Source: Wiktionary
Dos"age (dos"ayj), n. [Cf. F. dosage. See Dose, v.]
1. (Med.)
Definition: The administration of medicine in doses; specif., a scheme or system of grading doses of medicine according to age, etc.
2. The process of adding some ingredient, as to wine, to give flavor, character, or strength.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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