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prescription
[ pri-skrip-shuhn ]
noun
- Medicine/Medical.
- a direction, usually written, by the physician to the pharmacist for the preparation and use of a medicine or remedy.
- the medicine prescribed:
Take this prescription three times a day.
- an act of prescribing.
- that which is prescribed.
- Law.
- Also called positive prescription. a long or immemorial use of some right with respect to a thing so as to give a right to continue such use.
- Also called positive prescription. the process of acquiring rights by uninterrupted assertion of the right over a long period of time.
- Also called negative prescription. the loss of rights to legal remedy due to the limitation of time within which an action can be taken.
adjective
- (of drugs) sold only upon medical prescription; ethical. Compare over-the-counter ( def 2 ).
prescription
/ prɪˈskrɪpʃən /
noun
- written instructions from a physician, dentist, etc, to a pharmacist stating the form, dosage strength, etc, of a drug to be issued to a specific patient
- the drug or remedy prescribed
- modifier (of drugs) available legally only with a doctor's prescription
- written instructions from an optician specifying the lenses needed to correct defects of vision
- ( as modifier )
prescription glasses
- the act of prescribing
- something that is prescribed
- a long established custom or a claim based on one
- law
- the uninterrupted possession of property over a stated period of time, after which a right or title is acquired ( positive prescription )
- the barring of adverse claims to property, etc, after a specified period of time has elapsed, allowing the possessor to acquire title ( negative prescription )
- the right or title acquired in either of these ways
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Word History and Origins
Origin of prescription1
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Origin of prescription1
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Example Sentences
Term limits could be a prescription to speed change along.
I take calcium and vitamin D supplements, but prescription medications are generally only for women in menopause.
With prescription drug abuse rampant in the U.S., New York is taking steps to stop it.
His first prescription when I saw him was to have the CAT scan test that I had been forced to postpone for a month and a half.
No one should be given a lethal prescription of drugs when they are gripped by mental illness or in a temporary depression.
No, I'm only going to save the reputation of AEsculapius by giving him a prescription got from a quack to give to a goose.
The doctor who prescribes gratuitously gives a worthless prescription.
It arises from prescription (Greek: θεματισμὡ), from usage, or from nature.
Very few cases had a second chill after taking the prescription.
But we would earnestly advise her to try kissing a multitude of live men before taking so peculiar a prescription.
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