Can Anybody explain the meaning of the symbol Rx found with medicines?

Answer 1

Rx: A medical prescription. The symbol "Rx" is usually said to stand for the Latin word "recipe" meaning "to take." It is customarily part of the superscription (heading) of a prescription.

Another explanation for the origin of Rx is that it was derived from the astrological sign for Jupiter which was once placed on prescriptions to invoke that god's blessing on the drug to help the patient recover.

Answer 2

the symbol that originated in medical prescriptions. "℞" (also written as "Rx") and "medical prescription" are sometimes used interchangeably. The use of ℞ in prescriptions originated as an astrological symbol that was written for talismanic reasons at the start of medical prescriptions. Later it changed into ℞ (an uppercase R with its tail crossed), and was used as an abbreviation for the Latin word recipe = "take" (imperative), i.e. an instruction to the pharmacist to take the items listed in order to prepare the medicine. When printing came, it was rendered as "Rx"

Answer 3

It's a symbol that means Treatment, the actual symbol is a capital letter R with a line through the diagonal part of the letter R (ie it's not the two letters R and x). It's an abbreviation of the Latin word for recipe and was used by apothecaries (early pahramacists) when they were concocting their potions.

Answer 4

In a medical school lecture we were told that it is a contraction for an expression which meant essentially "By Jupiter." It was supposedly a prayer physicians said before treating a patient in the days when if an important patient died, the physician might also.

I've never gone back and confirmed this.

Others suggest that it might be based on the Egyptian symbol for Horus, or simply be a latin abbreviation for "take this."

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Answer 5

It came from the Latin word for remedy, which has been abbreviated to RX.

Answer 6

The first pharmacist was a dog named Rex. Since he was a dog, his writing skills were less than perfect so he signed his name Rx.

Answer 7

There no exact translation. Generally it means Therapy, Treatment, or Presciption, all of which mean the same thing.

Answer 8

it means that's it's a prescription drug. You can't buy it "over-the-counter"

Rx is Latin for "to take".

Answer 9

It is a sighn of good luck ,most probably it is related with a planet.sorry i have forgot the name of the planet.

Answer 10

Take thou. I cannot recall the language it derives from.