Frequency and timing
BID
bis in die — twice a day
Two doses in a 24-hour period, at times the facility schedules.
How it gets tested
The BID/TID/QID family is a standard matching set. Reading them as the Latin numbers — bis, ter, quater — makes them stick better than memorizing four pairs.
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