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B.i.d. (on prescription)
Seen on a prescription, b.i.d. means twice (two times) a day. It is an abbreviation for 'bis in die' which in Latin means twice a day. The abbreviation b.i.d. is sometimes written without a period either in lower-case letters as 'bid' or…
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