BID

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

English

Etymology

From Latin bis in diē.

Initialism

BID

  1. (medicine) Bis in die: 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: "amoxicillin totalling 500 milligram dosage (daily total), taken two times a day".

Anagrams

Spanish

Abbreviation

BID

  1. Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo, Inter-American Development Bank
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