2. Verb. (third-person singular of overdose) ¹
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Definition of Overdoses
1. overdose [v] - See also: overdose
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overdoses
Literary usage of Overdoses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Therapeutics, Materia Medica, and Pharmacy: Including the Special by Samuel Otway Lewis Potter (1909)
"It is anthelmintic against the tapeworm, and in overdoses produces i high degree
of irritation. It is used as a drastic purgative for children with calomel ..."
2. Practice of Medicine by Frederick Tice (1921)
"Such overdoses are sometimes responsible 1'or severe symptoms. The premonitory
arsenical symptoms, ..."
3. The Student's Flora of the British Islands by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1884)
"Filaments subequal, tip incurved ; anthers pale, included. Berry spheroidal,
obscurely 2-lobed.—A sedative, poisonous in overdoses. ORDER LIV. ..."
4. Practical therapeutics by Edward John Waring (1866)
"In overdoses it produces the following symptoms, as observed by Mr. Macnamara :'
profound stupor, from which the patient could only be roused for a minute ..."
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