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[pri-skrip-shuhn]

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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.

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adjective

(of drugs) sold only upon medical prescription; ethical. Compare over-the-counter (def. 2).

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Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English < Medieval Latin praescrīptiōn- (stem of praescrīptiō) legal possession (of property), law, order, literally, a writing before, hence, a heading on a document. See prescript, -ion

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Abuse of prescription drugs is more than common, it's hip.

Apparently they did the job, as my prescription doesn't change so much.

Their prescription for a weak economy is a large slug of austerity.

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Abuse of prescription drugs is more than common, it's hip.

Apparently they did the job, as my prescription doesn't change so much.

Their prescription for a weak economy is a large slug of austerity.

That's a prescription for the tropical conditions enjoyed by the cane toad.

Stop the ridiculous and vicious imprisoning of poor people who do some drug without a prescription.

Health care should be about empowering patients and encouragment rather than the old values of prescription and rules.

Authorities are clamping down on the online export of prescription drugs.

Open your medicine cabinet, and take a close look at every prescription pill bottle you've got.

These principles are not a prescription for didactic moralism, but the foundation of informed democracy.

Shake it up by considering them in the context of prescription drugs.

Brown offers his revised prescription for combating global warming.

Americans pay some of the world's highest prices for their prescription drugs.

Each offers its own distinctive diagnosis of the human problem and its own prescription for a cure.

It's disingenuous to equate lawful prescription medications with illegal recreational drugs.

Imagine a widely used and expensive prescription drug that promised to make us beautiful but didn't.

Getting prescription medication into developing countries is hard enough.

Patients with impaired vision often have difficulty reading the labels on their prescription drug bottles.

Regular excercise may fight depression as effectively as prescription medication does, researchers say.

Beecher's prescription helped cure the medical establishment of outright quackery, but it had an insidious side effect.

They are also widely used to make prescription drugs, printed circuit boards and microchips.

Seriously though, some herbal supplements do provide better treatment for disorders than drugs requiring a prescription.

It turned out to be an easily treated side effect of a prescription steroid she was taking.

Such findings as these could dramatically reduce the guesswork involved, thereby leading to the proper prescription from day one.

Arrests came at six pain clinics accused of illegally dispensing potent prescription drugs.

Bustamante had four different kinds of prescription medication with him in the hotel room where he was found dead.

If there is one prescription, it is that there is no prescription.

If it's prescription pill bottles, it's nursing homes.

Young women and their friends commonly share or borrow prescription drugs.

She said she had obtained a prescription for that purpose and had used it twice on trips.

No self-respecting family leaves the doctor's surgery without a multiple prescription for drugs to treat even.

Socolow's prescription for the climate problem today is to confront the problem, and take the bitter medicine.

Experts say findings should not dramatically change current prescription practices.

Perricone's prescription for great skin includes salmon.

Take my prescription of peppermint and whiskey and enjoy.

Various studies have estimated that a third to half of prescription drugs are not taken as prescribed-or at all.

So the next time you catch that bug, your prescription may not work.

Commercials hawking prescription drugs directly to consumers have driven doctors crazy for years.

The captions have been expanded to include the subjects' ages at the time of the photograph, what prescription drugs they.

Prescription cough meds typically work because of a pain killer in them.

Each report adds its own twist to this prescription.

Two choices of foot bed inserts and an additional insert for a prescription orthodontic.

She had hoped for an antidepressant prescription or a few relaxation techniques.

But they are rich in thebaine, a quite toxic chemical that is used as a starting point to make prescription painkillers.

Growing numbers of newborns across the country are struggling with addiction as prescription drug abuse ravages communities.

The result will be the prescription for a response to the failed methods revealed by the economic meltdown:.

Brazil has followed more or less the opposite of the agro-pessimists' prescription.

Americans take more antidepressants than they do any other type of prescription drug, and pregnant women are.

Wal-Mart says the tags will help reduce theft and counterfeiting, the latter particularly affecting prescription medicines.

Drug users are breaking into people's homes in search of prescription painkillers and other medications.

But there is also active euthanasia-the prescription or administration of drugs to someone who is not on a life-support system.

We put two new models into the ring, each promising a prescription for data storage, but only one truly dulled the pain.

But the generic pathway for regular brand-name prescription drugs, made from chemicals, remains the same as before.

Following surgery, he discovered that smoking marijuana helped him manage his pain better than prescription drugs.

In the case of drugs, those that can be purchased without a prescription from a doctor.

Their idea of treating the patient is to send them out the door with a prescription.

The hospital released him with a prescription for proper ulcer medication.

Most users had somehow obtained their drugs on prescription or else bought them over the internet.

He didn't say whether he was potentially strung out on every prescription medication known to.

It's much faster to stick with the standard practice and wait for the patient to return each time the prescription doesn't work.

After that you get a card detailing your prescription.

If you go to the doctor expecting a prescription for medication, you will probably get one, regardless of the type of doctor.

Possessing amphetamines without a prescription is illegal, as is facilitation of said possession.

Patients with braces are often given prescription toothpaste and mouthwash that contain high levels of fluoride.

For the vast majority of people, however, there are no prescription medications that have been proven to prevent dementia.

Americans spend more on those drugs on an outpatient basis than on any other prescription medicines, according to the paper.

Fortunately, women don't need a prescription to stop wearing bras.

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prescription (prɪˈskrɪpʃən)

—n
1.	a. 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
	b. the drug or remedy prescribed
2.	(modifier) (of drugs) available legally only with a doctor's prescription
3.	a. written instructions from an optician specifying the lenses needed to correct defects of vision
	b. (as modifier): prescription glasses
4.	the act of prescribing
5.	something that is prescribed
6.	a long established custom or a claim based on one
7.	law
	a. the uninterrupted possession of property over a stated period of time, after which a right or title is acquired (positive prescription)
	b. the barring of adverse claims to property, etc, after a specified period of time has elapsed, allowing the possessor to acquire title (negative prescription)
	c. the right or title acquired in either of these ways

[C14: from legal Latin praescriptiō an order, prescription; see prescribe]

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Word Origin & History

prescription

c.1380, "the right to something through long use," from O.Fr. prescription (13c.), from L. præscriptionem (nom. præscriptio) "a writing before, order, direction," from præscriptus, pp. of præscribere "write before," from præ- "before" + scribere "to write" (see

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script). Medical sense of "written directions from a doctor" first recorded 1579. Prescribe "to write down as a direction" is from 1535.

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Medical Dictionary

prescription pre·scrip·tion (prĭ-skrĭp'shən)
n.

A written order, especially by a physician, for the preparation and administration of a medicine or other treatment.
A prescribed medicine or other treatment.
An ophthalmologist's or optometrist's written instruction, as for the grinding of corrective lenses.

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