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Dose

The quantity of medicine given, or prescribed to be taken, at one time.

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Manner of action 4

Anaesthetize 76% connected

To render insensible by an anaesthetic.

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Narcotize 76% connected

To imbue with, or subject to the influence of, a narcotic; to put into a state of narcosis.

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Overdose 76% connected

To dose to excess; to give an overdose, or too many doses, to.

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Poison 76% connected

Any agent which, when introduced into the animal organism, is capable of producing a morbid, noxious, or deadly effect upon it; as, morphine is a dea…

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Clap 76% connected

To strike; to slap; to strike, or strike together, with a quick motion, so, as to make a sharp noise; as, to clap one's hands; a clapping of wings.

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Draft 76% connected

Pertaining to, or used for, drawing or pulling (as vehicles, loads, etc.). Same as Draught.

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Draught 76% connected

The act of drawing or pulling

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Gonorrhea 76% connected

Alt. of Gonorrhoea

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Gonorrhoea 76% connected

A contagious inflammatory disease of the genitourinary tract, affecting especially the urethra and vagina, and characterized by a mucopurulent discha…

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Hit 76% connected

It.

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Lozenge 76% connected

A diamond-shaped figure usually with the upper and lower angles slightly acute, borne upon a shield or escutcheon. Cf. Fusil.

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Lues 76% connected

Disease, especially of a contagious kind.

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Pill 76% connected

The peel or skin.

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Pox 76% connected

Strictly, a disease by pustules or eruptions of any kind, but chiefly or wholly restricted to three or four diseases, -- the smallpox, the chicken po…

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Syphilis 76% connected

The pox, or venereal disease; a chronic, specific, infectious disease, usually communicated by sexual intercourse or by hereditary transmission, and…

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Tab 76% connected

The flap or latchet of a shoe fastened with a string or a buckle.

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Tablet 76% connected

A small table or flat surface.

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Contagion 76% connected

The transmission of a disease from one person to another, by direct or indirect contact.

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Medicament 76% connected

Anything used for healing diseases or wounds; a medicine; a healing application.

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Medicate 76% connected

To tincture or impregnate with anything medicinal; to drug.

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Medication 76% connected

The act or process of medicating.

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Medicine 76% connected

The science which relates to the prevention, cure, or alleviation of disease.

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Process 76% connected

The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.

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Treat 76% connected

To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one's self toward; as, to treat prisoners cruelly; to treat children kindly.

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Drug 74% connected

To drudge; to toil laboriously.

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Drug 74% connected

To drudge; to toil laboriously.

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Sedation 74% connected

The act of calming, or the state of being calm.

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Sedation 74% connected

The act of calming, or the state of being calm.

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Acid 92% connected

Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar: as, acid fruits or liquors. Also fig.: Sour-tempered.

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Dot 92% connected

A marriage portion; dowry.

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Drug 92% connected

To drudge; to toil laboriously.

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Pane 92% connected

The narrow edge of a hammer head. See Peen.

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