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Prescription   /prəskrˈɪpʃən/   Listen
Prescription

noun
1.
Directions prescribed beforehand; the action of prescribing authoritative rules or directions.
2.
A drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist.  Synonyms: ethical drug, prescription drug, prescription medicine.
3.
Written instructions for an optician on the lenses for a given person.
4.
Written instructions from a physician or dentist to a druggist concerning the form and dosage of a drug to be issued to a given patient.
adjective
1.
Available only with a doctor's written prescription.



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"Prescription" Quotes from Famous Books



... marriage (-matrimonium confarreatione-); the civil marriage also (-matrimonium consensu-), although not in itself giving to the husband proprietary power over his wife, opened up the way for his acquiring this proprietary power, inasmuch as the legal ideas of "formal delivery" (-coemptio-), and "prescription" (-usus-), were applied without ceremony to such a marriage. Till he acquired it, and in particular therefore during the period which elapsed before the completion of the prescription, the wife was (just as in the later marriage by -causae probatio-, until ...
— The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) • Theodor Mommsen

... sent back with a verbal message to the effect that the prescription should be strictly followed, my father sat down, with Uncle Paul and Arthur, to consider ...
— The Wanderers - Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco • W.H.G. Kingston

... Grebe, the penultimate patient, proved to be an elderly malade imaginaire of dilatory habit, involved speech, and determined misery, he was obliged firmly to check a rising desire to write a hasty bread-pill prescription and fling him in the direction of Marlborough House. The half-hour chimed, and still Sir Henry explained the strange symptoms by which he was beset—the buzzings in the head, the twitchings in the extremities, the creepings, as of insects with iced legs, about the roots of the hair. His eyes ...
— Bella Donna - A Novel • Robert Hichens

... strongly that it is as unethical for an optician to fit eyeglasses without a physician's prescription as for a pharmacist to give drugs without a physician's prescription. The justification for this feeling should be based not upon the commercial motive of the optician but upon his ignorance. A ...
— Civics and Health • William H. Allen

... to do," Sister Margaret said. "Surgeon-Major Wills saw at once where the mischief lay. Nothing disagreeable was necessary, was it, Mr. Arnold? Perfect quiet, perfect rest—that's an easy prescription to take." She had rather prominent, very blue eyes, and an aquiline nose and a small firm mouth, and her pink cheeks were beginning to be a little pendulous with age. Hilda gazed at her silently, noting about her authority and her ...
— Hilda - A Story of Calcutta • Sara Jeannette Duncan


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