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prescription

[pri-skrip-shuhn]

noun

  1. Medicine/Medical.

    1. a direction, usually written, by the physician to the pharmacist for the preparation and use of a medicine or remedy.

    2. the medicine prescribed.

      Take this prescription three times a day.

  2. an act of prescribing.

  3. that which is prescribed.

  4. Law.

    1. 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.

    2. Also called positive prescription.the process of acquiring rights by uninterrupted assertion of the right over a long period of time.

    3. 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

  1. (of drugs) sold only upon medical prescription; ethical.

prescription

/ ɪˈɪʃə /

noun

    1. 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

    2. the drug or remedy prescribed

  1. (modifier) (of drugs) available legally only with a doctor's prescription

    1. written instructions from an optician specifying the lenses needed to correct defects of vision

    2. ( as modifier )

      prescription glasses

  2. the act of prescribing

  3. something that is prescribed

  4. a long established custom or a claim based on one

  5. law

    1. the uninterrupted possession of property over a stated period of time, after which a right or title is acquired ( positive prescription )

    2. the barring of adverse claims to property, etc, after a specified period of time has elapsed, allowing the possessor to acquire title ( negative prescription )

    3. the right or title acquired in either of these ways

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of prescription1

1250–1300; Middle English < Medieval Latin īپō- (stem of īپō ) legal possession (of property), law, order, literally, a writing before, hence, a heading on a document. See prescript, -ion
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of prescription1

C14: from legal Latin پō an order, prescription; see prescribe
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The shadow chancellor will say Reform's "economic prescription is pure populism".

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Her primary care doctor ended up overseeing her prescription, but once she got on Prozac, they didn’t really discuss it anymore, she said.

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No word on any spike in Lorazepam prescriptions.

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Indeed, there were seemingly as many prescriptions on offer in Anaheim as there were delegates.

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These inflated costs are a key reason that 21% of American adults have skipped filling a prescription in the past year due to affordability concerns, while 12% have skipped doses or cut pills in half.

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