bolus

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“What a non-scientist or the layperson doesn’t realize is that there is a huge bolus of information and consensus that the two people who are arguing will agree upon,” Dr. Sever said.

From New York Times

In order to conserve reagents and labor, you' wait until you have a certain bolus of samples and then test them together.

From Science Magazine

No one has found an appropriately-sized bolus of iguanodont and sauropod bone chunks in the Early Cretaceous strata of eastern Utah.

From Scientific American

By this measure, predigested food alone may not count, but if the parent first adds essential ingredients to the bolus, the regurgitate can fairly be deemed a milk.

From New York Times

Bill Anders meticulously described how a floating bolus of vomit split apart in zero gravity and confirmed Newtonian physics.

From Washington Post