Bolus may refer to:
Geography
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Bolus, Iran
Bolus ( fa, بلوس, also Romanized as Bolūs) is a village in Meshgin-e Gharbi Rural District, in the Central District (Meshgin Shahr County), Central District of Meshgin Shahr County, Ardabil Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population wa ...
, a village in Ardabil Province, Iran
* Bolus, or Baulus, an Anatolian village on the site of ancient
Berissa
Medicine
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Bolus (digestion)
In digestion, a bolus (from Latin ''bolus'', "ball") is a ball-like mixture of food and saliva that forms in the mouth during the process of chewing (which is largely an adaptation for plant-eating mammals). It has the same color as the food bei ...
, a ball-shaped mass moving through the digestive tract
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Bolus (medicine)
In medicine, a bolus (from Latin '' bolus'', ball) is the administration of a discrete amount of medication, drug, or other compound within a specific time, generally 1–30 minutes, to raise its concentration in blood to an effective level. The ...
, the administration of a drug, medication or other substance in the form of a single, large dose
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Bolus (radiation therapy), a tissue equivalent substance used in radiation therapy
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Bolus tracking
Contrast CT, or contrast enhanced computed tomography (CECT), is X-ray computed tomography (CT) using radiocontrast. Radiocontrasts for X-ray CT are generally iodine-based types. This is useful to highlight structures such as blood vessels that ...
, technique used in computed tomography imaging, to visualise vessels more clearly
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Triple bolus test __NOTOC__
A combined rapid anterior pituitary evaluation panel or triple bolus test or a dynamic pituitary function test is a medical diagnostic procedure used to assess a patient's pituitary function.
A triple bolus test is usually ordered and int ...
, a medical diagnostic procedure used to assess pituitary function
People with the name
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Bolus of Mendes (3rd century BC), esoteric Greek philosopher
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Brian Bolus
John Brian Bolus (31 January 1934 – 7 May 2020) was an English cricketer who played in seven Test matches from 1963 to 1964. Cricket commentator Colin Bateman stated, "Bolus was essentially an accumulator, dependably totting up 25,000 run ...
(born 1934), former English cricketer who played in 7 Tests from 1963
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Frank Bolus (1864–1939), English cricketer for Somerset
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Harry Bolus
Harry Bolus (28 April 1834 – 25 May 1911) was a South African botanist, botanical artist, businessman and philanthropist. He advanced botany in South Africa by establishing bursaries, founding the Bolus Herbarium and bequeathing his library and ...
(1834–1911), South African botanist, botanical artist, businessman and philanthropist
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Edward John Bolus (1897–?), poet, civil servant, and clergyman
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Louisa Bolus
Harriet Margaret Louisa Bolus ''Married and maiden names, née'' Kensit (31 July 1877, Burgersdorp – 5 April 1970, Cape Town) was a South African Botany, botanist and taxonomist, and the longtime curator of the Bolus Herbarium, from 1903. Bol ...
(Harriet Margaret Louisa Bolus née Kensit, 1877–1970), South African botanist
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Malvina Bolus (1906–1997), Canadian historian and art collector, and editor of the Hudson's Bay Company magazine ''The Beaver''
Other uses
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Bolus, a type of space tether, in spaceflight
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Bolus armenus, an example of a bole (a reddish soft variety of clay used as a pigment)
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Bolus Herbarium
The Bolus Herbarium was established in 1865 from a donation by Harry Bolus of his extensive herbarium and library to the South African College, which later became the University of Cape Town.
Its collection of specimens numbers over 320 000, mak ...
, an herbarium at the University of Cape Town established in 1865 from a donation by Harry Bolus
* Bolus hook, an instrument in a
Jacquard loom
The Jacquard machine () is a device fitted to a loom that simplifies the process of manufacturing textiles with such complex patterns as brocade, damask and matelassé. The resulting ensemble of the loom and Jacquard machine is then called a Ja ...
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Zeeuwse Bolus, a pastry from the Netherlands
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Bolus (Belgium), a Belgian pastry
See also
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Bolas (disambiguation)
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