On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Bolus. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as ball or globe and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Bolus meaning
- A round mass of something, especially of chewed food in the mouth or alimentary canal.
- A single, large dose of a drug, especially one in that form.
Using Bolus
- The main meaning on this page is: A round mass of something, especially of chewed food in the mouth or alimentary canal. | A single, large dose of a drug, especially one in that form.
- Useful related words include: ball, globe, orb, pill.
- In the example corpus, bolus often appears in combinations such as: the bolus, bolus is, extended bolus.
Context around Bolus
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 10 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Bolus
- In this selection, "bolus" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, extended, standard, pre, multiwave, spike and square stand out and add context to how "bolus" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a basal bolus manner using and a combination bolus multiwave bolus. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "bolus" sits close to words such as abdulrazaq, adan and adolphus, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with bolus
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He was 89. Miller died Thursday evening, said his assistant, Julia Bolus. (12 words)
An active Trump supporter, Bolus did remember he offered his hall for free. (13 words)
A meal is a food bolus, continuous snacking for an afternoon is not. (13 words)
Despite knowing it meant ‘turd’ of some sort, I had to Google the definition of Bolus and it’s defined as “a rounded mass: such as a soft mass of chewed food” whereas in this definition it refers to a huge turd inside the lizards’ stomach. (46 words)
So it's kind of the patient type we thought maybe with the slight caveat that we didn't quite expect the bolus of patients that the doctors had queued, ready to go when we walked in. But -- so that's where we are. (44 words)
Bolus timing Since the pump user is responsible to manually start a bolus, this provides an opportunity for the user to pre-bolus to improve upon the insulin pump's capability to prevent post-prandial hyperglycemia. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
A combination bolus/multiwave bolus is the combination of a standard bolus spike with an extended bolus square wave.
Bolus timing Since the pump user is responsible to manually start a bolus, this provides an opportunity for the user to pre-bolus to improve upon the insulin pump's capability to prevent post-prandial hyperglycemia.
After a blood glucose check with the integrated glucometer, the user can use the bolus wizard to deliver a required bolus.
A pre-bolus is simply a bolus of insulin given before it is actually needed to cover carbohydrates eaten.
A super bolus is a method of increasing the spike of the standard bolus.
The extended bolus is appropriate when covering high fat high protein meals such as steak, which will be raising blood sugar for many hours past the onset of the bolus.
This supports the process of performing a new bolus before the effects of the last bolus are complete and, thereby, helps prevent the user from overcompensating for high blood sugar with unnecessary correction boluses.
Users can experiment with bolus shapes to determine what is best for any given food, which means that they can improve control of blood sugar by adapting the bolus shape to their needs.
So it's kind of the patient type we thought maybe with the slight caveat that we didn't quite expect the bolus of patients that the doctors had queued, ready to go when we walked in. But -- so that's where we are.
He was 89. Miller died Thursday evening, said his assistant, Julia Bolus.
Despite knowing it meant ‘turd’ of some sort, I had to Google the definition of Bolus and it’s defined as “a rounded mass: such as a soft mass of chewed food” whereas in this definition it refers to a huge turd inside the lizards’ stomach.
Earlier in the week, the city issued Bolus a notice of violation for the flags, which gave him until Oct. 12 to remove the flags from the building.
In resuscitation from septic shock in children in well-resourced settings, give 20 ml/kg as a rapid bolus and up to 40-60 ml/kg in the first 1 hr.
We recommend a small initial bolus dose of oxytocin, followed by a titrated infusion.
An active Trump supporter, Bolus did remember he offered his hall for free.
Insulin and amylin were delivered simultaneously, in a basal-bolus manner, using a novel dosing algorithm, with a fixed ratio (6 µg/u), mimicking a co-formulation.
A History of Chemistry, Bensaude-Vincent, Isabelle Stengers, Harvard University Press, 1996, p13 Between the time of Bolus and Zosimos, the change took place that transformed this metallurgy into a Hermetic art.
A meal is a food bolus, continuous snacking for an afternoon is not.
An extended bolus is a slow infusion of insulin spread out over time.
By pumping with a "square wave" shape, the bolus avoids a high initial dose of insulin that may enter the blood and cause low blood sugar before digestion can facilitate sugar entering the blood.
Common combinations with bolus
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the bolus 15×
- bolus is 8×
- extended bolus 4×
- bolus of 4×
- bolus and 4×
- of bolus 3×
- standard bolus 2×
- bolus spike 2×
- bolus wizard 2×
- super bolus 2×