--- title: "How to pronounce \"macrodose\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"macrodose\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/KPlJcD-o-4Q/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/macrodose" --- # How to pronounce "macrodose" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA**: `/ˈmækɹoʊˌdoʊs/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **ma·cro·dose** - **Stress**: **MA** — say this syllable louder and longer ## Meaning & Usage ### NOUN - A relatively large dose of (something, such as a drug or radiation), particularly as contrasted with a microdose. - *Example*: "Here macrodose is defined as the average dose for a large-size object such as a liver or a tumour." ### VERB - To take a relatively large dose of (something, particularly a drug), particularly as contrasted with microdosing. - *Example*: "Much less expensive than either is macrodosing with vitamins C, D, and E, which has been shown to be beneficial in slowing the progression of osteoarthritis of the knee." ### Example Sentences - "Here macrodose is defined as the average dose for a large-size object such as a liver or a tumour." - "Much less expensive than either is macrodosing with vitamins C, D, and E, which has been shown to be beneficial in slowing the progression of osteoarthritis of the knee." - "Most of those studies focus on macrodoses of psilocybin not microdosing." ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (7 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "macrodose" in real conversation: ### Example 1 *Accent: US* > "at University of California, San Francisco, and elsewhere exploring psilocybin for the treatment of depression, for trauma, for eating disorders. Most of those studies focus on macrodoses of psilocybin not microdosing. There are far fewer studies of microdosing of psilocybin." - **Watch at 104:54**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPlJcD-o-4Q&t=6294s) ### Example 2 *Accent: US* > "And a guest on the podcast, Matthew Johnson, who's at Johns Hopkins, I asked him, "What's the deal with the microdosing?" And you know what his answer was? I was very surprised. He said, "Macrodose." And I thought, okay, I'm not a guy who, you know, I'm not into, I'm not, I'm not a pushing this." - **Watch at 15:30**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ds1m5gflCI&t=930s) ### Example 3 *Accent: US* > "- or something. These are a matter of degrees. Speaking of dosage, I definitely want to ask you about microdose versus standard or macrodose. Tell me that I'm wrong, but I'm always a little bit," - **Watch at 98:13**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzvzWO0NU50&t=5893s) ### Example 4 *Accent: US* > "for the treatment of any mental disorders. We also talk about more typical macrodosing, what those macrodoses entail, and he walks us through what an experiment of a patient taking psychedelics for the treatment of depression looks like in his laboratory from start to finish." - **Watch at 1:31**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzvzWO0NU50&t=91s) ### Example 5 *Accent: US* > "effective meaning that can induce a real trip with hallucinations, et cetera, of LSD is actually in the microgram range. So some people hear microdose, and they think microgram of LSD is a-- micrograms is a microdose when, in fact, a macrodose of LSD can be measured in micrograms, right? So this is where in the absence of scientific training, people can really go astray." - **Watch at 102:39**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcxjwA4C4Cw&t=6159s) ### Example 6 *Accent: US* > "- Right. So someone taking 100 micrograms of LSD, nowadays, people might mistakenly refer to that as a microdose, because it's micrograms, but that's actually a macrodose of LSD? - Right, they might, and that's one of the most common mistakes or situations that people get into with microdosing, is they intend it to be a microdose," - **Watch at 100:34**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzvzWO0NU50&t=6034s) ### Example 7 *Accent: US* > "nowadays, people might mistakenly refer to that as a microdose, because it's micrograms, but that's actually a macrodose of LSD? - Right, they might, and that's one of the most common mistakes or situations that people get into with microdosing, is they intend it to be a microdose, but it ends up being a full-blown dose." - **Watch at 100:41**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzvzWO0NU50&t=6041s) ## How to Pronounce "macrodose" - **Syllables**: ma · cro · dose - **Stress**: MA — say this syllable louder and longer - **IPA**: `/ˈmækɹoʊˌdoʊs/` - **Listen for**: the stressed /MA/ in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech. ## Related Words ### Word Forms [macrodoses](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/macrodoses), [macrodosed](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/macrodosed), [macrodosing](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/macrodosing) ## Related Pronunciations [mac](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/mac), [maca](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/maca), [macaasim](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/macaasim), [macabeo](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/macabeo), [macaberesque](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/macaberesque), [macabo](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/macabo), [macabre](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/macabre), [macabrely](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/macabrely) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce “macrodose”? “macrodose” is pronounced /ˈmækɹoʊˌdoʊs/ (ma · cro · dose). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation. ### How many syllables are in “macrodose”? “macrodose” has 3 syllables: ma · cro · dose. ### Where is the stress in “macrodose”? The primary stress in “macrodose” is on “MA”. Listen for that stressed syllable in the clips above. ### What does “macrodose” mean? A relatively large dose of (something, such as a drug or radiation), particularly as contrasted with a microdose. ### How can I hear “macrodose” used in real sentences? This page has 7 real-world video examples of “macrodose” with synchronized subtitles. 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