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posology

IPA(Pronunciation)

Noun

countable uncountable usually historical rare

(countable, uncountable, pharmacy, pharmacology) The study of the dosages of drugs, especially the determination of appropriate dosages.

Japanese Meaning

医薬品の用量、特に適正な投与量を決定するための学問

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The research article on posology outlined new dosage recommendations for elderly patients.

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用量学に関する研究論文は、高齢患者のための新しい投与量の推奨をまとめていました。

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Sense（1）

(countable, uncountable, pharmacy, pharmacology) The study of the dosages of drugs, especially the determination of appropriate dosages.

The difficulty here alluded to occurs in the doses of medicine exhibited by the ancient physicians. These have long been observed to be very large; and it was on remarking the impossibility, according to our ideas, of exhibiting them with safety to human life, or even of escaping destruction under their influence, that my observation was first drawn to the subject of ancient posology.

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Sense（2）

(uncountable, mathematics, historical, rare) In the works of English philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832): the study of quantity; mathematics.

https://books.google.com/books?id=SjEmyxU8L8oC&pg=PA253 page 253 [T]he branch of art and science therein denominated Posology, but commonly called Mathematics. […] https://books.google.com/books?id=SjEmyxU8L8oC&pg=PA254 page 254 Of the two minor aggregates, into which, by this means, the major aggregate, Posology or Mathematics, was divided,—form-regarding, or figure-regarding Posology or Mathematics, in Greek-sprung language, Morphoscopic Posology, was the name given to the positive minor aggregate: […]

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