Category: Qa-Qz
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q.h. (on prescription)
Abbreviation for “every hour.” On a prescription or doctor’s hospital orders, q.h. means every hour. Also written qh (without the periods). From the Latin quaque meaning once + h for hour. However it is written, it is one of a number of hallowed abbreviations of Latin terms that have been traditionally used in prescriptions to specify the frequency with…
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q.3h.
On a prescription, every three hours.
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q.2h
On a prescription, every two hours.
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q arm of a chromosome
The long arm of a chromosome. All human chromosomes have 2 arms — a short arm and a long arm — that are separated from each other only by the centromere, the point at which the chromosome is attached to the spindle during cell division. By international convention, the short arm is termed the “p arm”…