A unit dose is the amount of a
Unit-dose packaging is the packaging of a single dose in a nonreusable container. It is increasingly used in
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Unit. — Unitarian. * * * abbrev Unitarian * * * u|nit «YOO niht», noun, adjective. –n. 1. a single thing or person; individual member or part (of a group or number of things or individuals): »to regard husband and wife as the primary units of the family … Useful english dictionary
dose — 1. The quantity of a drug or other remedy to be taken or applied all at one time or in fractional amounts within a given period. Cf.:dosage (2). 2. In nuclear medicine, amount of energy absorbed per unit mass of irradiated material (absorbed d.) … Medical dictionary
unit — 1. One; a single person or thing. 2. A standard of measure, weight, or any other quality, by multiplications or fractions of which a scale or system is formed. 3. A group of persons or things considered as a whole because of mutual activities or… … Medical dictionary
Dose (biochemistry) — This article is about a measure of medication or chemical exposure. For other uses, see Dose (disambiguation). A dose is a quantity of something (chemical, physical, or biological) that may impact an organism biologically; the greater the… … Wikipedia
Dose, absorbed — In radiology, the absorbed dose is the amount of energy that is deposited in any material by ionizing radiation. The unit of absorbed dose, the rad, is a measure of energy absorbed per gram of material. An alternative unit of absorbed dose is the … Medical dictionary
dose — doser, n. /dohs/, n., v., dosed, dosing. n. 1. a quantity of medicine prescribed to be taken at one time. 2. a substance, situation, or quantity of anything analogous to medicine, esp. of something disagreeable: Failing the exam was a hard dose… … Universalium
dose unit — dozės vienetas statusas T sritis fizika atitikmenys: angl. dose unit vok. Dosiseinheit, f rus. единица дозы, f pranc. unité de dose, f … Fizikos terminų žodynas
Unit 100 — Weapons of mass destruction … Wikipedia
dose equivalent — Physics. a unit that quantifies the biological effectiveness of an absorbed dose of ionizing radiation, obtained by multiplying the absorbed dose by dimensionless factors that account for the kind of radiation, its energy, and the nature of the… … Universalium
dose equivalent — in radiation biology, the product of absorbed dose in rads and the modifying factors, namely the quality factor (QF), distribution factor (DF), and any other necessary factors. The unit of dose equivalent is the rem … Medical dictionary
