Marie Curie is remembered for her discovery of radium and polonium, and her huge contribution to the fight against cancer. Born Maria Sklodowska on 7 November 1867 in Warsaw, Poland, she was the youngest of five children of poor school teachers.
Medical Definition of b.i.d. (on prescription) 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 in capital letters as BID.
Do they know who reads them? How does that order get to the patient? One of the areas of prescription writing I'm particularly interested in is the SIG: section of a prescription. (For some of the basics of a prescription, see this excellent Wikipedia article.) SIG is medical shorthand for Signa, which in Latin literally means, write.