King didn't get radicalized by the urban riots of the 1960s or Vietnam; he was already a radical, says Thomas Jackson, author of From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Struggle for Economic Justice..
Here are the definitions of the symbols/abbreviations used in a typical contact lens prescription: 1  Eye - Which eyes the prescription line item is for. 2  SPH - Sphere (this can also be referred to as Power or PWR) 3  BC - Base Curve (usually a number between 8 and 10)  DIA - Diameter (usually a number between 13 and 15)
(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: 1  b.i.d. (bid or BID) is twice a day; b.i.d.. stands for bis in die (which means, in Latin, twice a day).  t.i.d. (or tid or TID) is three times a day ; t.i.d. stands for ter in die (in Latin, 3 times a day).