5X a day
It means that drug should be taken 5 times during 24 hours. Ideally, once every 5 hours.
Acyclovir is most effective drug against shingles. You give it 4 hourly, five times a day. A night dose is omitted.
5tw may mean five times weekly, but it is a non-standard abbreviation.
Five times.
The five parts of a perscritption drug for administration is; right name, right dose, right route, right time, right patient.
LD50 isn't a drug. It's short for 'Lethal Dose 50', and is the term used to describe the minimum dose of a specific drug that will kill half of a sample of organisms exposed to it. For example, if Drug A has an LD50 of 1mg, and you inject 10 mice with 1mg of the drug, you'd expect that five of the mice would die. The LD50 will vary depending on which drug it's referring to.
Do you mean the safety check mantra to avoid drug erors in healthcare? The Right dose, of the Right drug, given to the Right patient, at the Right time, by the Right route.
Normally you'd write 5x/wk to avoid confusion.
Five goes into ten twice, or two times.
five times: in 1967, twice in 1973, in 1977 and in 1978.
five times: in 1967, twice in 1973, in 1977 and in 1978.
Five times.