Pen VK

[crazybob]

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I'm sure we all know about penicillin v k.

How do you guys say it?

When I'm working, we say "pen vee kay"

I've had a pharmaceutics professor say "penicillin five potassium"

 

[rph3664]

Pen Vee Kay.

Was this professor American, and was he the type to joke around?

There's also penicillin G, X, O, and others.

 

[crazybob]

Pen Vee Kay.

Was this professor American, and was he the type to joke around?

There's also penicillin G, X, O, and others.

He's American and said penicillin five potassium. He was the type to be serious. no one in class corrected him or anything.

 

[rxlea]

Vee Kay

Brand name : Veetids

 

[Actinomycin]

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?

 

[spacecowgirl]

Vee-Kay

 

[Its Z]

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.

 

[confettiflyer]

+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.

 

[Pharmavixen]

I'm sure we all know about penicillin v k.

How do you guys say it?

When I'm working, we say "pen vee kay"

I've had a pharmaceutics professor say "penicillin five potassium"

In Canada, we say, "vee kay."

Your professor is insane.

 

[Its Z]

In Canada, we say, "vee kay."

Your professor is insane.

I heard he's from Canada..

 

[IndustryPharmD]

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. 😀

 

[Its Z]

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. 😀

Repeat after me

R - kin - saw

 

[IndustryPharmD]

Repeat after me

R - kin - saw

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. 😛

 

[spacecowgirl]

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.

how do you store all that "useful" knowledge in one human brain?

 

[Its Z]

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.

 

[SpirivaSunrise]

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.

LOL...you're so full of it!

 

[Its Z]

The Latin phrase for To Feed is Vesco, Vescor, Vesco, Vescor is defined as: to feed, to eat.

We'll never know... why don't some of you contact the manufacturer of PenVK

 

[Old Timer]

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.

Several natural penicillins may be produced, depending on the chemical composition of the fermentation media. These include penicillins F,X,K and G.

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

It is factually incorrect to call it Penicillin five potassium.

By the way Z, that was a very short limb.

 

[Old Timer]

Vee Kay

Brand name : Veetids

Better Brand Name

Pen-Vee-K

 

[spacecowgirl]

What ever happened to SDN1977 anyway?

 

[type b pharmD]

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 .

 

[confettiflyer]

What ever happened to SDN1977 anyway?

I know, I miss her posts...she brought geographic balance to the board of elite posters.

 

[spacecowgirl]

I know, I miss her posts...she brought geographic balance to the board of elite posters.

I miss her too 🙁

 

[Its Z]

her only downfall was she went to an inferior pharmacy school .. crappy ucsf..

 

[Its Z]

i would take a great pleasure in correcting this professor. please pm me his email addy. i will be sure to call him a ***** idiot.

 

[Old Timer]

her only downfall was she went to an inferior pharmacy school .. crappy ucsf..

That and she decided to have a pissing contest with the moderators....