Bolus

A bolus (from Latin bolus, ball), in biology, is any kind of ball-shaped organic structure of an organism or of its discharged substances.

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When it comes to drugs, a bolus is a large dose of a drug that is given (usually intravenously by direct infusion injection or gravity drip) at the beginning of treatment to raise blood-level concentrations to a therapeutic level.

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The term is also used for any fairly large quantity of matter making its way through the digestive tract. In some technical domains it is used to describe the solid results of a bowel movement.

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The term is also used by diabetics and health care professionals to describe a dosage of fast-acting insulin intended to "cover" a meal (as opposed to basal, which is either a dose of slow-acting insulin or a continuously pumped small quantity of fast-acting insulin, intended to "cover" the glucose output of the liver).

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Latin: Latin is an Indo-European language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. It gained great importance as the formal language of the Roman Empire. All Romance languages are descended from Latin, and many words based on Latin are found in other modern languages such as English. The ...

Organism: In biology and ecology, an organism (in Greek organon = instrument) is an assembly of organs that influence each other in such a way that they function as a more or less stable whole and have properties of life....

Digestive tract: REDIRECT Human gastrointestinal tract...