For a person with diabetes, a bolus is a dose of insulin taken to handle a rise in blood glucose (a type of sugar), like the one that occurs when eating. From LearnThat.org. [http://kidshealth.org/parent/diabetes_basics/dictionary/bolus.html]
In reading messages I see the word bolus or something like that. From Wordnik.com. [Discussion Forum - TuDiabetes] Reference
When swallowing a bolus, which is a chunk of chewed food, it causes the esophagus to be stretched. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
After mastication, the food is worked by the tongue and cheeks into a saliva-soaked "bolus" and swallowed. From Wordnik.com. [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference
A bolus of spit flew from his mouth as he screamed. From Wordnik.com. [After Iraq] Reference
Another bolus rose, passing similarly beyond the mesh. From Wordnik.com. [Unicorn Point]
"A bolus, and these fellows are restored to consciousness.". From Wordnik.com. [Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2] Reference
Put 4-5 bolus inside the animal's mouth twice a day for 3-4 days. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
He sat on it while I shoved a bolus on a plunger down its throat. From Wordnik.com. [There Was a Time] Reference
He eased up another bolus of air, then patted his stomach gingerly. From Wordnik.com. [Dance Of Death]
Mix the powder together and add 50 g of brown sugar to make a bolus. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 10] Reference
An IV bolus of dextrose, or sugar, would have corrected hypoglycemia. From Wordnik.com. [Mortal Remains]
Concurrently monitors were attached followed by a bolus of IV glucose. From Wordnik.com. [Invasion]
Or make a bolus of the powder in brown sugar and feed it to the animal. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 30] Reference
FSANZ will have accepted the data handed to them holus bolus, as they do. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Diary: GM SOY up for Approval in AUSTRA:LIA] Reference
Then, when you eat, you type in a bolus and it gives it to you right away. From Wordnik.com. [Why I Am Going on the Insulin Pump] Reference
While he had his trach, he was fed all of his nutrition through bolus feeding. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 25, 2003] Reference
Finely pound a handful of each of the ingredients, mix and make a small bolus. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
She felt a bolus of vomit rise in her throat, and tried to turn her head away. From Wordnik.com. [Drums of Autumn]
Take a bolus and am walked for half an hour or so up and down some back-streets. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 20, 1891] Reference
Mix with 50 g brown sugar to make bolus and feed by mouth twice a day for 2-3 days. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 8] Reference
A bolus of breaded chicken breast was desperate and dry, skewers of prawns simply odd. From Wordnik.com. [Restaurant review: Aberdeen Angus] Reference
It is not the proposal of the Task Team that the NEC adopts the CCAC concept holus bolus. From Wordnik.com. [REVOLUTIONARY MORALITY: THE ANC AND BUSINESS] Reference
Ten percent of the drug goes in as a bolus, then the remaining 90% as a drip over an hour. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference
I'll chew every bolus of it many times I'm sure, and I'll carefully consider your counsel. From Wordnik.com. [Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates]
Again, I want to make it clear that Canada cannot simply adopt the U.S. system holus bolus. From Wordnik.com. [Strategies of Economic Policy-Making: Canada/United States] Reference
But it's odd - this is the first time I'm getting such a concentrated bolus of negativitiy. From Wordnik.com. [Negative reviews] Reference
Grind 2 handfuls of leaves and mix with 50 g of brown sugar and a little water and make a bolus. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 13] Reference
The latest bolus ofbatshit craziness comes from that paragon of lowbrow gruntertainment, Sarah Palin. From Wordnik.com. [2009 August 09 « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS] Reference
It has more than once been proposed that to enable the British public to take its annual bolus at Burlington. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)] Reference
Make a bolus and put into the mouth of an adult animal twice a day for 2-3 days or until the bleeding stops. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 31] Reference
She was given a rapid intravenous bolus of normal saline and was admitted to the medical intensive care unit. From Wordnik.com. [Colchicine Poisoning] Reference
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