bolus
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Nelson and other researchers fear their projects could be left behind if the U.S. government doesn’t ante up a similar bolus of funding.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 2, 2024
“It’s very possible we’ll eliminate the bolus and still get the same efficacy.”
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2023
Finally, it pushes that bolus back to be swallowed, making sure no food enters the airways.
From Science Magazine ● May 24, 2023
“Persistent Vision” is a digital bolus of D.C. punk rock stretching from 1976 to 1992.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 10, 2022
Watching while they opened up the rocky hillside ground with pick and mattock and brought to light a great bolus of serpents perhaps a hundred in number.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
And public-health departments' ability to identify threats has been bolstered by boluses of federal money after the 2001 World Trade Center attack and subsequent anthrax attacks, and in the 2009 stimulus package.
From Nature ● Jul. 24, 2013
The Sears catalogue lists a variety of capsules, tinctures, pills and boluses calculated to cure almost any known ailment, physical or mental.
From Time Magazine Archive
If in two days he is no better, take sixteen grains Antimonial Powder, made into four boluses; one night and morning for two days.
From The Dog by Dinks
These 20 boluses being repeated three times, the patient found himself perfectly well.
From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Franklin Bache
He takes it for granted that they have swallowed his boluses and draughts.
From Hunting the Skipper The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop by Harold Piffard
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