Usually means: Doses of medicine for swallowing.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word boluses:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. boluses: Merriam-Webster
  2. boluses: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. boluses: Collins English Dictionary
  4. boluses: Vocabulary.com
  5. boluses: Wordnik
  6. boluses: Wiktionary
  7. Boluses, boluses: Dictionary.com
  8. Boluses: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Boluses: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. boluses: FreeDictionary.org
  11. boluses: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. boluses: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. boluses: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. boluses: Medical dictionary

(Note: See bolus as well.)

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.
▸ Also see bolus


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