English Dictionary

posology

/pəʊˈsɒ.lə.dʒi/

noun

(countable, uncountable, pharmacy, pharmacology) The study of the dosages of drugs, especially the determination of appropriate dosages.

The posology of this medication is two tablets per day.

意味（1）

(countable, uncountable, pharmacy, pharmacology) The study of the dosages of drugs, especially the determination of appropriate dosages.

The difficulty here alluded to occurs in the doses of medicine exhibited by the ancient physicians. These have long been observed to be very large; and it was on remarking the impossibility, according to our ideas, of exhibiting them with safety to human life, or even of escaping destruction under their influence, that my observation was first drawn to the subject of ancient posology.

意味（2）

(uncountable, mathematics, historical, rare) In the works of English philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832): the study of quantity; mathematics.

https://books.google.com/books?id=SjEmyxU8L8oC&pg=PA253 page 253 [T]he branch of art and science therein denominated Posology, but commonly called Mathematics. […] https://books.google.com/books?id=SjEmyxU8L8oC&pg=PA254 page 254 Of the two minor aggregates, into which, by this means, the major aggregate, Posology or Mathematics, was divided,—form-regarding, or figure-regarding Posology or Mathematics, in Greek-sprung language, Morphoscopic Posology, was the name given to the positive minor aggregate: […]