BID

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

English

Etymology

From Latin bis in diē.

Adverb

BID (not comparable)

(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: "amoxicillin totalling 500 milligram dosage (daily total), taken two times a day".

Anagrams

DBI, DIB, IBD, IDB, dib

Spanish

Proper noun

BID

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

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