Bolus
noun
A small round mass of substance, especially of chewed food ready for swallowing.
The snake swallowed the mouse, its body forming a bolus under the scaly skin.
noun
A single dose of a drug or other medicinal preparation given all at once.
The doctor administered a bolus injection of the pain medication.
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noun
A type of large pill used in veterinary medicine.
The veterinarian gave the cow a bolus to treat the intestinal infection.
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noun
A mass of material, such as metal or glass, that is only roughly shaped, especially so it can be reshaped more precisely.
The blacksmith first formed the iron into a bolus before refining it into a blade.
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noun
A small round mass of substance, especially of chewed food ready for swallowing.
The snake swallowed the mouse, its body forming a bolus under the scaly skin.
noun
A single dose of a drug or other medicinal preparation given all at once.
The doctor administered a bolus injection of the pain medication.
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
noun
A type of large pill used in veterinary medicine.
The veterinarian gave the cow a bolus to treat the intestinal infection.
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
noun
A mass of material, such as metal or glass, that is only roughly shaped, especially so it can be reshaped more precisely.
The blacksmith first formed the iron into a bolus before refining it into a blade.
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
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Pro Tip 1/2Digestion Process
Refers to food that's been chewed and mixed with saliva, ready for swallowing.
After chewing carefully, she swallowed the bolus.
Pro Tip 2/2Natural Observation
Notice how animals prepare food in their mouths before swallowing, forming a bolus.
The cow chewed its cud, forming a bolus.
Pro Tip 1/2Digestion Process
Refers to food that's been chewed and mixed with saliva, ready for swallowing.
After chewing carefully, she swallowed the bolus.
Pro Tip 2/2Natural Observation
Notice how animals prepare food in their mouths before swallowing, forming a bolus.
The cow chewed its cud, forming a bolus.
Pro Tip 1/2Digestion Process
Refers to food that's been chewed and mixed with saliva, ready for swallowing.
After chewing carefully, she swallowed the bolus.
Pro Tip 2/2Natural Observation
Notice how animals prepare food in their mouths before swallowing, forming a bolus.
The cow chewed its cud, forming a bolus.
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How your digestive...
sense the bolus's presence and trigger peristalsis, a series of defined muscular contractions. That propels the food into the stomach, where it's left at the mercy of the muscular stomach walls, which bound the bolus, breaking it into chunks.
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The Dangers of Marine...
unwittingly feeding moment my science class was given these bonuses of lease on albatrosses to to dissect and the bolus is basically what the albatross regurgitates what we found was very
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Safari Live - Day 384 PIPE...
eat the guts but what they'll need to do first is clean out the bolus so they'll take out their actually run the guts through their teeth and squeeze out the
Video examples
How your digestive...
sense the bolus's presence and trigger peristalsis, a series of defined muscular contractions. That propels the food into the stomach, where it's left at the mercy of the muscular stomach walls, which bound the bolus, breaking it into chunks.
Video examples
The Dangers of Marine...
unwittingly feeding moment my science class was given these bonuses of lease on albatrosses to to dissect and the bolus is basically what the albatross regurgitates what we found was very
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 384 PIPE...
eat the guts but what they'll need to do first is clean out the bolus so they'll take out their actually run the guts through their teeth and squeeze out the
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Irish Poet
Woman suffrage is an unjust, unreasonable, unspiritual abnormality. It is a hard, undigested, tasteless, devitalized proposition. It is a half-fledged, unmusical, Promethean abomination. It is a quack bolus to reduce masculinity even by the obliteration of femininity.
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John Boyle O'Reilly
Irish Poet
Woman suffrage is an unjust, unreasonable, unspiritual abnormality. It is a hard, undigested, tasteless, devitalized proposition. It is a half-fledged, unmusical, Promethean abomination. It is a quack bolus to reduce masculinity even by the obliteration of femininity.
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