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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
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prescription
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Word definitions for prescription in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE available ▪ I pause here to point out that items such as dressings are available on prescription . ▪ It is usually prescribed for women after their available only through prescription . ▪ The morning-after pill ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., in law, "the right to something through long use," from Old French prescription (13c.) and directly from Latin praescriptionem (nominative praescriptio ) "a writing before, order, direction," noun of action from past participle stem of praescribere ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Prescription , prescriptive , or prescribe may refer to:
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Usucaption \U`su*cap"tion\ (?; 277), n. [L. usucapere, usucaptum, to acquire by long use; usu (ablative of usus use) + capere to take: cf. usucapio usucaption.] (Roman Law) The acquisition of the title or right to property by the uninterrupted possession ...
Usage examples of prescription.
Favorite Prescription for my daughter, and in looking over the directions of the accompanying circular and finding my own case so thoroughly described, I decided at once to give his special home treatment a trial, which I did during the three months that followed.
You must take his advice, and for a couple of louis he will write you a prescription with country air as the chief item.
Destutt de Tracy once observed that the best treatises on logic, in the eighteenth century, were written by grammarians: this is because the prescriptions of grammar at that time were of an analytic and not an aesthetic order.
For the girls left next to roadways, an overdose of benzodiazepine, the prescription drug Ativan.
While the Favorite Prescription exerts a tonic influence upon the digestive and nutritive functions, the Golden Medical Discovery acts upon the excretory glands.
Dr Mannet was holding his head in his hands and staring at a prescription pad.
Doc, who had just finished filling a prescription, handed a customer a bottle of paregoric for her baby who was teething.
I found a typewriter shop, got a new platen for the Royal, and by that time the prescriptions were ready.
So the prescription sedative could have been drawn off in whole or in part, and puromycin injected into the bottle.
Favorite Prescription, will generally prove successful in cases of amenorrhea resulting from plethora.
It occurred to me that satyriasis might be a logical prescription for nymphomania.
The doctrine yet lingers by sheer force of prescription and unthinkingness, when the basis on which it originally rested has been dissipated.
The acidheads, thrash metal goose steppers and MTV heads were ecstatic over the news that there would be as many free prescriptions for their little mental ballets: Prozac, Melleril, Dalmane sleeping agents, Darvon for headaches and migraines.
She answered that one thing at least was certain, namely that no other woman had ever been cured by the same prescription.
The Bollandists deny this whole story, which they find in opposition to the prescriptions of Francis himself.