BID
English
editEtymology
editAdverb
editBID (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
editCommonly written as: “amoxicillin 500 mg BID”, read as: “500 milligram dosage of amoxicillin, taken two times a day” (totalling 1000mg).
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editProper noun
editBID
- Initialism of Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (“Inter-American Development Bank”).