ボーラス

noun

bolus

Medical term for a single, relatively large dose of a drug or other substance given all at once, or a mass of chewed food ready to be swallowed.

• 医い師しは抗こう生せい物ぶっ質しつをボーラス投とう与よした。

  The doctor administered the antibiotic as a bolus.

• 嚥えん下げの前まえに、食たべ物ものは口こう腔くう内ないでボーラスになる。

  Before swallowing, food becomes a bolus in the mouth.