Rx is used in place of the word: "prescription"
Prescription (medicine)
Rx simply means that patient needs to take the following medicine.
Nothing Rexall in a name. The Rx stands for recipe and the cross mark which makes an x is a prayer. Early medicine had a strong religious foundation.
"Rx" means "prescription for medicine." The letters abbreviate the Latin word recipe, which is a form of the verb "to take."Doctors write Rx in the heading of prescriptions as an instruction to "take" the medicine. The pharmacists filling the orders understand this shorthand (and hopefully they can read the doctors' handwriting) and print it on pill bottles with whatever else doctors order, such as "take twice daily with food." Somewhere along the line, pharmacists started using "Rx" on their storefront signs so patients knew where to get their doctors' instructions translated.
David B. Wilhelm has written: 'Rx for the soul' -- subject(s): Christian life, Christianity, Medicine, Religious aspects, Religious aspects of Medicine
American culture uses the eye of Horus for RX, medicine and pharmaceutical stuff.
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The full form of Rx is "prescription." Rx is derived from Latin, with the symbol "Rx" representing the imperative verb "recipe," which means "take" or "take thou." It is commonly used in medical contexts and signifies a medical prescription or instructions for a patient's treatment.
Rx is a symbol used in Egyptian mythology for the ancient Egyptian sky god, Horus, whose eyes were said to be the sun and the moon. His right eye was the sun, and his left eye was the moon. Rx symbolized the left eye, the moon, which was known as the "Eye of Horus." The symbol is used by pharmacies and in the field of medicine, and represents the Eye of Horus in that aspect.
1. Acetaminophen-Codeine Oral Rx 2. Crestor Oral Rx 3. Diltiazem HCl Oral Rx 4. Fenofibrate Micronized Oral Rx 5. Hydroxyzine HCl Oral Rx 6. Ibuprofen Oral Rx / OTC 7. Levothyroxine Oral Rx 8. Oxycodone-Acetaminophen Oral Rx 9. Prochlorperazine Maleate Oral Rx 10. Unithroid Oral Rx
Rx is short hand for prescription. Your doctor will either fill out a request for a drug that you then have filled at a drug store or he will call in one for you. These short hand methods can cause problems if the term is misunderstood. Another one used is Dx, which means diagnosis.
℞ is a symbol meaning file "prescription". It is sometimes transliterated as "Rx" or just "Rx".