Usually means: Mass of chewed food swallowed.
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  1. bolus: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. bolus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bolus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bolus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bolus: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bolus, bolus: Wordnik
  7. bolus: Wiktionary
  8. bolus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. bolus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. bolus: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. bolus: Dictionary.com
  12. Bolus (digestion), Bolus (disambiguation), Bolus (medicine), Bolus (radiation therapy), Bolus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Bolus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. bolus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. bolus: Rhymezone
  16. Bolus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. bolus: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. Bolus: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  19. bolus: Free Dictionary
  20. bolus: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. bolus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. bolus: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. bolus: Encyclopedia

Medicine (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Breast Cancer Talking Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Bolus: Diabetes Dictionary
  4. Bolus: Diabetes
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Lay Terms for Consent Forms (No longer online)
  7. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  8. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  9. bolus: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
  10. Diabetes Dictionary (No longer online)
  11. DICTIONARY OF TERMS IN ORAL PHYSIOLOGY (No longer online)
  12. KidsHealth Glossary of Medical Words (No longer online)
  13. bolus: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  14. bolus: Medical dictionary
  15. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. bolus: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. On-Line Biology Book: GLOSSARY (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. bolus: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. bolus: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (bolus)

noun:  A round mass of something, especially of chewed food in the mouth or alimentary canal.
noun:  A single, large dose of a drug, especially one in that form.
verb:  (transitive) To administer (a drug) in bolus dosing, that is, dosing in (one or more) boluses.
verb:  (intransitive) To take a bolus (dose) of insulin at a mealtime in order to control one's blood glucose level in diabetes.

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