Bolus

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A bolus (from Latin bolus, ball), in biology, is any kind of ball-shaped organic structure of an organism or of its discharged substances. When it comes to drugs, a bolus is a large dose of a drug that is given (usually intravenously by direct infusion injection or gravity drip) at the beginning of treatment to raise blood-level concentrations to a therapeutic level.

The term is also used for any fairly large quantity of matter making its way through the digestive tract. In some technical domains it is used to describe the solid results of a bowel movement. The term is also used by diabetics and health care professionals to describe a dosage of fast-acting insulin intended to "cover" a meal (as opposed to basal, which is either a dose of slow-acting insulin or a continuously pumped small quantity of fast-acting insulin, intended to "cover" the glucose output of the liver).