Quantitative
Having to do with quantity or with the amount.
See also qualitative.
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- Quaque (on prescription)
q.d. (qd or QD) is once a day; q.d. stands for “quaque die” (which means, in Latin, once a day). b.i.d. (bid or BID) is twice a day; b.i.d. stands for “bis in die” (which means twice a day). t.i.d. (or tid or TID) is three times a day ; t.i.d. stands for “ter in […]
- Quaque die (on prescription)
If a medicine is to be taken every so-many hours, it is written “q_h”; the “q” standing for “quaque” and the “h” indicating the number of hours. So, for example, “2 caps q4h” means “Take 2 capsules every 4 hours.”
- Quarantine
A period of isolation decreed to control the spread of infectious disease. Before the era of antibiotics and other medications, quarantine was one of the few available means for halting the spread of infectious diseases.
- Quasi-
Prefix meaning seemingly, as in quasidominant (seemingly dominant).
- Quasidiploid
Describing a cell that seems to have the usual two full sets of 23 chromosomes, but does not. Many malignant cells are quasidiploid. Also called pseudodiploid.