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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
bolus /ˈbəʊləs/

▶noun (pl. boluses)

1 a small rounded mass of a substance, especially of food being swallowed.

2 a large pill used in veterinary medicine.
■ Medicine a single dose of a drug given all at once.

– origin C16: via late L. from Gk bōlos ‘clod’.

'bolus' also found in these Oxford entries:

bole - holus-bolus

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