Yes, sig is an abbreviation for signa, which means "write."
Sig is short for signa. Signa is the name for the directions on a prescription for taking a medication.WHEN A DOCTOR WRITES OUT A prescription, there are a certain number of things that have to appear on a prescription for it to be valid: NAME OF PATIENT, TYPE OF MEDICATION, DOSE OF MEDICATION, ROUTE OF MEDICATION, DURATION OF TREATMENT or QUANTITY OF MEDICATION and the DOCTORS SIGNATURE, AND DATE. SOME DOCTORS use the term "SIG." WHICH MEANS "these are my directions" (for use of the medication.) For instance: the prescription may read: "Xanax .25mg. tabs." "sig: 1 tab TID (three times a day) PO (by mouth) for 30 days. Disp. (dispense) #90" Sig. is what directions the doctor wants the pharmacist to write on the label. Not ALL doctors use "sig."
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Sig is an abbreviation of Signa, the latin word meaning "to write." This is the designation for how the medication should be taken and is written on the prescription as directions.
SIG stands for Special Interest Group.
Sig: means recipe or the directions for administering the drug/prescription.
If you mean what does the acronym "SIG" stand for, it means "Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft," which is German for "Swiss Industrial Company."
Someone named Sig
The inscription is the portion of the prescription that specifies the medication. For instance, if I wrote: Hydrochlorothiazide 12.5 mg #30 sig 1 po qd ref x3 Then "Hydrocholorothiazide 12.5 mg" is the inscription.
AC- means before mealsPC- means after mealsAC usually is usually the same as "with food."There is no specific abbreviation for "with meal," per se. /AC and /PC, stands for before meal after meal, respectively. If you're writing a prescription for something that needs to be taken with food, then the sig is: /C food. When
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