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Jupiterimages/Photos.com/Getty Images. When writing eye exam results on a chart or for a prescription, an eye doctor uses the abbreviations for the Latin terms meaning right and left eye. O.D. stands for oculus dexter, or right eye; it means pertaining to the right eye. O.S. means oculus sinister, or left eye.
home / medterms medical dictionary a-z list / q.d. (on prescription) definition Medical Definition of q.d. (on prescription) q.d. (on prescription): Seen on a prescription, q.d. (or qd) means one a day (from the Latin quaque die). The abbreviation is sometimes written without a period in capital letters as QD. However it is written, it is one of a number of hallowed abbreviations of Latin terms that have been traditionally used in prescriptions to specify the frequency with which medicines should be taken. Other examples include: