Kertaannoksiin

Kertaannoksiin is the illative plural form of the Finnish compound noun kerta-annos, which means a single-dose amount of a medicine or substance. The illative case marks direction or into-ness, and the plural form kertaannoksiin is used in contexts referring to multiple single-dose portions, such as dosing regimens or administration plans found in medical texts.

Kerta-annos combines two elements: kerta meaning one time or single, and annos meaning dose. The hyphen in the standard spelling kerta-annos helps to clarify the compound, but the form kertaannoksiin without a hyphen can also appear in continuous text due to orthographic conventions. The corresponding singular illative is kerta-annokseen (or kertaannokseen), while the plural nominative is kerta-annokset. The language uses the illative plural to convey distribution or administration into several doses.

In practice, kertaannoksiin is predominantly found in professional medical writing, pharmacology, and clinical guidelines. It is used when describing how a medication should be divided into multiple single-dose portions or how a regimen consists of several single doses administered over time. The term is technical rather than everyday language and may appear alongside related forms such as kerta-annos or annos in dose calculations and treatment protocols.

Example: Lääkettä tulisi antaa kerta-annoksiin, ja ne tulisi jakaa tasaisesti koko hoitoviikon mittaan. See also: kerta-annos, annos, lääkehoito.