bolus

Term: bolus

Literally meaning: “soil lump”

Origin: Anc Greek

βῶλος/volos(=lump, a small mass of soil)

Coined/History

masculine singular ending  for nouns oς/os > latin- us, masculine singular for nouns

Definition

Bolus is

1.      any roundish mass of medication larger than an ordinary pill that it is ready to shallow

2.    a concentrated form of a medication or radioisotope administered in one dose intravenously.