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Old 08-25-2013, 01:43 PM
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Confused dolts and posology

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Originally Posted by mymorgy View Post
posology [pəˈsɒlədʒɪ]
n
(Medicine) the branch of medicine concerned with the determination of appropriate doses of drugs or agents
[from French posologie, from Greek posos how much]
posological [ˌpɒsəˈlɒdʒɪkəl] adj
waves, you make me feel like a dolt.
I have only run across the word in context... Per the definition, it sounds like my use was a little off... I've never looked this word up, and it is one I've known for years... gotten it from reading and gleaned meaning from context (since I know I've never looked it up). Either it is 1. used the way I use it as well or 2) it has broader meaning than the way I took it.

Anyway, if there is a dolt here, it would have to be me.
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