Pen VK
Started by crazybob
He's American and said penicillin five potassium. He was the type to be serious. no one in class corrected him or anything.
Vee Kay
Brand name : Veetids
Brand name : Veetids
Are you at one of the very new schools?
Does the professor have a pharmacy background or got a pharmaceutics phd after a chem/bio bachelors?
Does the professor have a pharmacy background or got a pharmaceutics phd after a chem/bio bachelors?
Vee-Kay
I'll go out on a limb and say your professor is an idiot.
It's not V as in five.... because I certainly don't see any Pen I, II, III, IV molecules but I do see Pen G.
Either they named the mold based on Alphabet....or Latin V stands for vesco as in feed since Pen V K is an oral medication.
Now go correct your professor.
It's not V as in five.... because I certainly don't see any Pen I, II, III, IV molecules but I do see Pen G.
Either they named the mold based on Alphabet....or Latin V stands for vesco as in feed since Pen V K is an oral medication.
Now go correct your professor.
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+1 on the idiot thing
it's definitely vee-kay, both east and west coast. Z just vouched for TX, so we've got the country covered.
it's definitely vee-kay, both east and west coast. Z just vouched for TX, so we've got the country covered.
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I have never heard anyone refer to it as pen FIVE kay. That's just stupid. 🙄 But then, I do remember one time many years ago, when I was getting flustered and talking a mile a minute, and I mispronounced Arkansas as ahr-KAN-zas. That person I was speaking to must have thought I was stupid too. 😀
Having been to AAAH-keeen-saaawww (in July, of all times), I would rather stick with the real KAN-zas, thank you very much, and avoid the other one altogether. 😛
how do you store all that "useful" knowledge in one human brain?
Brain is like a household...the longer you live, more junk you collect and store. The key is being able to find the stored item. And I'm old and have been around longer than all of you...except for Old Fart and SDN1977 but she no longer comes around here.
LOL...you're so full of it!
Sorry I couldn't chime in earlier. The professor is incorrect. I'm trying to be nice, otherwise I would call him/her a friggin ***** who has less than no clue about what they are speaking about and this statement makes everything else he/she says suspect.
If you needed more information look at the name brands of the Penicillins from the 1980's
By the way Z, that was a very short limb.
Goodman and Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics. Sixth Edition, 1980.
If you needed more information look at the name brands of the Penicillins from the 1980's
- V-Cillin-K (Lilly) Not pronounced Five Cillin K
- Pen-Vee-K (Wyeth)
- Veetids (Squibb) Not pronounced 5-tids
By the way Z, that was a very short limb.
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What ever happened to SDN1977 anyway?
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lol i thought for sure you were going to ask if people say pen v potassium or pen v k .. not "FIVE" LOL 
I still usually say "potassium" cause it has a certain ring to it .
I still usually say "potassium" cause it has a certain ring to it .
I know, I miss her posts...she brought geographic balance to the board of elite posters.
I miss her too 🙁
That and she decided to have a pissing contest with the moderators....
