Why is RX short for prescriptions?!
Question: Rx is latin and it doesnt seem to have any connection to "pharmacy". in yahoo reference rx means "prescription to take". Rx is an abbreviation for the latin word recipe which means "to Take". So when doctors write rx in front of a prescription thats their instructions meaning to take the medicine
Answers: Rx is latin and it doesnt seem to have any connection to "pharmacy". in yahoo reference rx means "prescription to take". Rx is an abbreviation for the latin word recipe which means "to Take". So when doctors write rx in front of a prescription thats their instructions meaning to take the medicine
It's shorthand for recipe prescription.Doctors write Rx in the heading of prescriptions as an instruction to "take" the medicine. The pharmacists filling the orders understand this shorthand (and hopefully they can read the doctors' handwriting) and print it on pill bottles with whatever else doctors order, such as "take twice daily with food." Somewhere along the line, pharmacists started using "Rx" on their storefront signs so patients knew where to get their doctors' instructions translated.