Dose and Trace

Dose

Dose noun - A measured portion of medicine taken at any one time.

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Trace and dose are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Trace" instead a noun "Dose".

Nearby Words: dosed, dosing, dosage

Trace noun - A very small amount.

Usage example: doctors detected only a trace of bacteria in the blood sample but put the patient on antibiotics just in case

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Dose and trace are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Dose" instead a noun "Trace".

Nearby Words: track, traced, tracing, traceable, tracking

original	original dose	original trace
single	single dose	single trace
small	small dose	small trace
large	large dose	large trace
Other adjectives: huge, little, slight, final, last.

A form of poison which is hard to trace to a suspect is an excess of nicotine (injected in a dose much larger than usually lethal) in one of the victim's cigarettes.

Source: Perfect Poison
Radiation is sometimes measured in the Banana Equivalent Dose, since the typical banana, containing trace amounts of radioactive potassium-40, exposes its consumer to 1/10 of a µSv (microsievert) of radiation.

Source: Fantastic Measurement System

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