BID

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See also: bid, bíd, bîd, bið, and -bid

English

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Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin bis in diē.

Adverb

BID (not comparable)

  1. (medicine) Initialism of bis in diē..: twice a day, two times per day.
    • 2014 — Seufert, Ken. (April 2014) "The New Dawn of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing: Innovative Solutions for Unprecedented Challenges", American Pharmaceutical Review, 17(3):8–9.
      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.

Commonly written as: "amoxicillin 500 mg BID", read as: "500 milligram dosage of amoxicillin, taken two times a day (totalling 1000mg)".

Anagrams

Spanish

Proper noun

BID

  1. Initialism of Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (“Inter-American Development Bank”).
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