Wordie: Bolus: Comments

Comment by kirinqueen, 3 months ago

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:43:47 +0000

Also used by type 1 diabetics who use insulin pumps, to describe a dose of insulin given to correct a high blood sugar or to account for the carbohydrates in a meal. May be used as a verb as noted by adoarns, e.g., "My blood sugar was a little high, so I bolused for that, and I'm having pizza for lunch, so I'll have to take another bolus pretty soon."

Comment by adoarns, 8 months ago

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 01:42:57 +0000

Most often used by house officers to mean either a fluid bolus, which is a rapid infusion of some fluid, for instance saline, usu. made to improve blood pressure or replete lost water, or a drug bolus, which is a big, all-at-once starting dose of a drug that builds up blood levels quickly so that you can get clinical effects without waiting for several doses to go in.

Can also be used as a verb: "Mrs Shalhoub's BP dipped, so I bolused her."

Comment by bilby, 9 months ago

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 12:07:40 +0000

"Artefacts have also surfaced, making suggestions about how people lived in Nuvuk. Here, a body holds an ulu, a traditional knife used for taking blubber from whale carcasses; there, a grave gives up weights from a bolus which would have been used to hunt birds."
- 'Bodies Point To Alaska's Past', Richard Black, BBC website 31 Dec 2007.