English Dictionary

underdose

動詞

自動詞 他動詞 比喩的用法

(transitive, intransitive) To administer an inadequate dose (to someone or to oneself). / (transitive) To administer an inadequate dose of (a medication).

日本語の意味

適切な薬の用量を与えず、不十分な量の薬を投与すること。 / 薬を服用する際に、必要な用量に達していない状態を作り出す行為。

The doctor decided to underdose the elderly patient to minimize side effects, but it reduced the treatment's effectiveness.

医師は副作用を最小限に抑えるために高齢の患者に不十分な量を投与することにしたが、その結果治療効果は低下した。

意味（1）

(transitive, intransitive) To administer an inadequate dose (to someone or to oneself).

The time may come when penicillin can be bought by anyone in the shops. Then there is the danger that the ignorant man may easily underdose himself and by exposing his microbes to non-lethal quantities of the drug make them resistant.

意味（2）

(transitive) To administer an inadequate dose of (a medication).

[…] a Child new-born may take an eighth or tenth part of a paper, a Child of a year old a quarter of a paper or a sixth part, 2, 3, or 4 years old a third 5, 6, 7, half a paper, &c. for you cannot hurt if you over or under dose it a little; the Medicine being safe.

意味（3）

(figuratively, intransitive) To use a scant or inadequate amount of an ingredient or product.

My advice is to slightly under-dose on the whiskey in Delia’s recipe, who I imagine went for a rather better bottle than I did.

underdoses （ present singular third-person ）

underdosing （ participle present ）

underdosed （ participle past ）

underdosed （ past ）