2007-02-12 02:36:41 · 5 answers · asked by shanekeavy 5 in Health ➔ Other - Health
It's an abbreviation for "recipe" in Latin and roughly translates "take."
2007-02-12 02:47:34 · answer #1 · answered by B. Perky 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The logo “Rx” which means “recipe” is a transliterated image very similar to a capital R with a pass at the diagonal. A lot of one-of-a-kind theories exist approximately the supply of this logo. Some men and women say that it's very similar to the Eye of Horus, others to the vintage signal for Jupiter, each gods whose safeguard can have been searched in clinical contexts. According to yet another variant, the emblem is also deliberate as an abbreviation of the Latin “recipe”, the type of “recipere”, “to take” .Well, it’s particularly feasible that greater than this sort of elements impacts its type. Namely, “Recipe” denotes simply “Take….” And while a health practitioner writes a recipe commencing with “Rx”, she or he is conducting the order. This might on the starting be aimed on the druggist who had to take a certain quantity of each and every element to mix the medicament, as a substitute than a sufferer who have got to observe the medicament, that’s to devour it.
2016-09-07 00:28:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rx is the abbreviation for prescription.
2007-02-12 02:39:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is acually Px, which is common in medical abbreviations. Tx is treatment, Hx is history, Dx is diagnosis.
2007-02-12 02:40:19 · answer #4 · answered by Troy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To insure u it is produced by a pharmaceutical (legal drugs).
2007-02-12 02:39:56 · answer #5 · answered by 511@ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋