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Wed 29 Sep, 2010 10:03 pm
a twice-weekly injection = twice injections in a week?
or :
one injection in two weeks?
Context:
"By that, I mean we delivered the microRNA inhibitor in a way we might give it to a person -- as a twice-weekly injection -- not using some genetic trick. It's the closest thing to a clinical result that's yet been published."
@oristarA,
oristarA wrote:
a twice-weekly injection = twice injections in a week?
a twice-weekly injection =
two injections in a week?
If the injection was intended to be give at two week intervals they could write "a two-weekly injection" or "a fortnightly injection" (the latter is more likely in British English countries)