BID
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "bid"
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from Latin bis in diē.
Adverb
[edit]BID (not comparable)
- (pharmacology) twice a day, two times per day
- 2014 April, Ken. Seufert, “The New Dawn of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing: Innovative Solutions for Unprecedented Challenges”, in American Pharmaceutical Review:
- It has been repeatedly documented that moving patients from a TID dosing regimen to BID or OD vastly improves compliance, and thus the medicine's effectiveness.
Usage notes
[edit]Commonly written as: “amoxicillin 500 mg BID”, read as: “500 milligram dosage of amoxicillin, taken two times a day” (totalling 1000mg).
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]BID (plural BIDs)
Anagrams
[edit]Spanish
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]BID m
- initialism of Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (“Inter-American Development Bank”)
- 2022 June 30, Ángela Reyes Haczek, “Dejar el hogar y empezar el viaje: quiénes son los que migran a EE.UU. y por qué lo hacen”, in CNN en Español[1]:
- La búsqueda de oportunidades económicas fue mencionada por el 74% de migrantes centroamericanos en Estados Unidos encuestados para un estudio del BID como la principal causa para querer radicarse en el norte.
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