tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Aug 11 14:56:30 1999
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RE: KLBC / Eureka!
pIl'o' wrote:
: > right above "jail" in my word list is the noun "half".
: > that's <bID> In health care lingo BID means 2 times/day.
: > I wonder if M.O. was thinking, "1/2 the daily dose now,
: > 1/2 later"........ }}};-)
pagh:
: That's one that I have certainly never heard before. maj.
That's an abbreviation of *bis in diem* "twice a day" which doctors write on
prescriptions, if I remember my Latin. As I understand it, many of the old
pharmaceutical abbreviations are still used today.
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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons