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Definition 2024
QD
QD
English
Adverb
QD (not comparable)
- (pharmacology) once per day
Usage notes
- Use of QD on handwritten prescriptions, orders, and the like is proscribed and indeed forbidden by some hospitals in favor of Q Day or daily, so as to avoid dangerous confusion with handwritten QID.
Etymology 2
Noun
QD (plural QDs)
- (nanotechnology) Initialism of quantum dot.