BID

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

English

Etymology

From Latin bis in diē.

Adverb

BID (not comparable)

(pharmacology) twice a day, two times per day
Coordinate terms: QID, TID
- 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

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

Anagrams

DBI, DIB, Dib, IBD, IDB, dib

Spanish

Proper noun

BID

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

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