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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 positive prescription. 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 positive prescription. the process of acquiring rights by uninterrupted assertion of the right over a long period of time.
- Also called negative prescription. 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
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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
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of prescription1
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of prescription1
Example Sentences
At Adelanto and Desert View Annex, files showed healthcare providers entered conflicting diagnoses and prescriptions that did not correspond to the diagnosis, the report said.
Three-month and annual prescriptions prepayment certificates will also be frozen and existing exemptions will continue.
Asked if his party would commit to keeping free prescriptions in Wales, Farage replied: "If we can, yes of course."
I'd like to get your reaction to both his comments about your plan to support primary challengers, as well as his broader political prescription to just let Trump defeat himself.
Justice Department after allegations that the pharmacy chain illegally filled millions of invalid prescriptions for opioids and other controlled substances.
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