1. Word finder
  2. Word definitions
  3. prescribe

Find the word definition

What is "prescribe"

Crossword clues for prescribe

prescribe
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
prescribe
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a doctor prescribes pills (=tells someone to take them)
▪ Her doctor just prescribed more pills and told her to take it easy.
a doctor prescribes sth (=writes an order for medicine for someone)
▪ My doctor prescribed a course of antibiotics.
a doctor prescribes tablets (=tells someone to take them)
▪ Dr Preston arrived and prescribed some pain-relieving tablets.
prescribe medication (=arrange for someone to take a particular type of medicine)
▪ Doctors should always explain the reasons for prescribing any medication.
prescribed medication (=one for which you need a doctor's order)
▪ What happens if the patient does not take their prescribed medication?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
▪ After her delivery the symptoms did not decrease and a maintenance dose of oral prednisolone, 12.5 mg/day, was also prescribed.
▪ Exodus also prescribes death for those who defile the Sabbath or perform any work on that day.
▪ A fortnightly clinic at Guisborough and a monthly clinic in Brotton is also prescribed.
▪ Antibiotics were also prescribed for 48 hours prior to the operation to reduce the bacteria normally present in the bowel.
▪ It also prescribed new regulations governing tender offers.
▪ The commission's guidelines would also prescribe a standard way of testing hardware.
▪ Antibiotics are also prescribed for acne treatment and need to be given for several months at a time to be effective.
■ NOUN
course
▪ He was prescribed a course of multivitamins, essential fatty acids, and glutathione supplements.
▪ A doctor was called out and he diagnosed some kind of virus and prescribed a course of antibiotics.
▪ So he was prescribed a course of antibiotics.
▪ If your symptoms are severe, he or she may prescribe a course of antibiotics which are designed to kill the bacteria.
doctor
▪ The threats broke Errol, and doctors prescribed Prozac for depression and sleeping tablets for insomnia.
▪ If your doctor prescribes a medication that disrupts your sleep, you may want to ask her two questions.
▪ If you are taking any medicines in syrup form, ask your doctor if he can prescribe a sugar-free alternative.
▪ If your doctor prescribes a hypnotic, ask which one.
▪ The legislation also bans the practice of paying incentives to doctors to prescribe expensive brand name medicines.
▪ Next day the doctor prescribed small yellow pills for vertigo.
▪ There will be no limit on meeting the cost of medicines or the amount of medicines that your doctor can prescribe.
▪ In some, such as PacifiCare, the costs of medications doctors prescribe are deducted from their pay.
drug
▪ Analgesic and anti-emetic drugs had been prescribed.
▪ But unlike physicians, veterinarians sell -- and profit from -- the drugs they prescribe.
▪ The pharmaceutical industry had a legitimate interest in seeing that their own branded drugs were prescribed.
▪ Thus, these drugs should not be prescribed to patients with pre-existing peripheral neuropathy.
▪ It was clear that some economies were possible if more generic drugs were prescribed rather than branded drugs.
▪ Because of the risk of potential toxicity, patients have to be carefully screened so that the drug is not inappropriately prescribed.
▪ In some children the drug had not been prescribed.
▪ Also, older people are often treated by several doctors, who may not always know what other drugs have been prescribed.
form
▪ If people want to prescribe unproved forms of treatment, or to receive them, that is their choice.
law
▪ A new literature must arise, a literature without prescribed laws or rules of initiation.
medication
▪ These services could include prescribing certain medications and the referral of patients to medical specialists.
▪ If your doctor prescribes a medication that disrupts your sleep, you may want to ask her two questions.
▪ Overall, these data support the safety and effectiveness of Internet prescribing of selected medications.
▪ California and 29 other states have similar statutes barring the prescribing of medication to end life.
▪ Of course, I do have a few problems, but I have good caring doctors who have prescribed medication.
▪ First, ask if there are other medications or treatment alternatives to the prescribed medication.
▪ All prescribed medications, hospital stays, and transportation were offered free of charge.
▪ If you find a prescribed medication is disrupting your sleep, the effects may be temporary.
medicine
▪ The legislation also bans the practice of paying incentives to doctors to prescribe expensive brand name medicines.
▪ This worker can prescribe and dispense medicine, assuming a major function of a psychiatrist, for less money.
▪ The person who prescribed the medicine may have had homoeopathic experience but was not using homoeopathy in this case.
▪ The amount is not fixed firmly and the doctor will in no circumstances be told to stop prescribing necessary medicines.
▪ Treatment was not merely a matter of prescribing herbal medicines, but a whole regimen which controlled the diet and the life-style.
patient
▪ Results of the gastroscopy can be discussed with the patient before discharge and treatment can be prescribed.
▪ Under the best case, by the time the proper medicine is prescribed, this patient will be long dead.
▪ A doctor doesn't ask his patient what treatment to prescribe.
▪ Thus, these drugs should not be prescribed to patients with pre-existing peripheral neuropathy.
▪ They are given a budget to spend on the drugs they prescribe for their patients.
▪ Does this mean that doctors are now prescribing wine for patients at risk for heart attacks?
▪ Several private physicians have begun prescribing them to panicked patients.
physician
▪ Not suspecting polio, physicians prescribed codeine, penicillin, aspirin, and even antibiotics for their patients' aching bodies.
▪ In 1994, the California legislature passed a bill to permit physicians to prescribe marijuana.
▪ Yeast remedies are available over the counter, and a physician can prescribe antibiotics for chlamydia, gonorrhea, and others.
▪ Several private physicians have begun prescribing them to panicked patients.
pill
▪ The doctor advised rest and quiet and prescribed some red pills.
▪ When I continued to demur, he promised to prescribe only five pills, one for each of the next five nights.
▪ The doctors prescribed all kinds of pills.
▪ Next day the doctor prescribed small yellow pills for vertigo.
▪ When the morning after is Sunday: pharmacist prescribing of emergency contraceptive pills.
▪ When the body develops tolerance to a prescribed pill, some people ask their physicians to give them a different pill.
steroid
▪ I've prescribed steroids freely in the past without thinking about the immunosuppressant effect.
treatment
▪ If people want to prescribe unproved forms of treatment, or to receive them, that is their choice.
▪ Agreement developed that diagnosis should not result in mere labeling but should be used to prescribe appropriate treatment.
▪ She will then prescribe the appropriate treatment for your hair to be used on a regular basis between salon visits.
▪ Antibiotics are also prescribed for acne treatment and need to be given for several months at a time to be effective.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Four years is the minimum jail sentence that federal law prescribes.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Agreement developed that diagnosis should not result in mere labeling but should be used to prescribe appropriate treatment.
▪ But some doctors have a history of abusing that trust for profit, prescribing unnecessary and ineffective diet regimes to all comers.
▪ It may prescribe the manner of their exercise, but it can not subvert the rights themselves....
▪ The clinic responded with two more alarm clocks before prescribing drugs.
▪ The same applied if antibiotics were prescribed, or a referral to a specialty, usually orthopaedics, was required.
▪ Therefore, I initiate disulfiram treatment by prescribing the drug for the patient to self-administer.
▪ We will introduce powers for nurses to prescribe where appropriate.
▪ What it does not do, of course, is to prescribe an appropriate style of professional practice.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prescribe

Prescribe \Pre*scribe"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Prescribed; p. pr & vb. n. Prescribing.] [L. praescribere, praescriptum; prae before + scriebe to write. See Scribe.]

  1. To lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or rule of action; to impose as a peremptory order; to dictate; to appoint; to direct.

    Prescribe not us our duties.
    --Shak.

    Let streams prescribe their fountains where to run.
    --Dryden.

  2. (Med.) To direct, as a remedy to be used by a patient; as, the doctor prescribed quinine.

    Syn: To appoint; order; command; dictate; ordain; institute; establish.

Prescribe

Prescribe \Pre*scribe"\, v. i.

  1. To give directions; to dictate.

    A forwardness to prescribe to their opinions.
    --Locke.

  2. To influence by long use [Obs.]
    --Sir T. Browne.

  3. (Med.) To write or to give medical directions; to indicate remedies; as, to prescribe for a patient in a fever.

  4. (Law) To claim by prescription; to claim a title to a thing on the ground of immemorial use and enjoyment, that is, by a custom having the force of law.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
prescribe

"to write down as a direction," mid-15c., from Latin praescribere "write beforehand" (see prescription). Related: Prescribed; prescribing. Medical sense is from 1580s, probably a back formation from prescription.

Wiktionary
prescribe

vb. 1 To order (a drug or medical device) for use by a particular patient. 2 To specify as a required procedure or ritual; to lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or rule of action.

WordNet
prescribe

v. issue commands or orders for [syn: order, dictate]

Usage examples of "prescribe".

You replied, advising me, and prescribing a course of treatment, which you sent to me.

Beaufort, Port Royal, and New Orleans shall so far cease and determine, from and after the first day of June next, that commercial intercourse with those ports, except as to persons, things, and information contraband of war, may from that time be carried on, subject to the laws of the United States, and to the limitations and in pursuance of the regulations which are prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury in his order of this date, which is appended to this proclamation.

Alexandria shall so far cease and determine, from and after this date, that commercial intercourse with said port, except as to persons, things, and information contraband of war, may from this date be carried on, subject to the laws of the United States, and to the limitations and in pursuance of the regulations which are prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury in his order which is appended to my proclamation of the 12th of May, 1862.

It was fitting that Christ should not only fulfil what was prescribed by the Old Law, but also begin what appertained to the New Law.

By an act passed in 1865 Congress had prescribed that before any person should be permitted to practice in a federal court he must take oath asserting that he had never voluntarily borne arms against the United States, had never given aid or comfort to enemies of the United States, and so on.

It is not to be denied that they had the inherent right, inside of Constitutional limitations, to repeal the laws of their States, and even to change the Constitution itself, if they should do it by prescribed methods and by honest majorities, and should not, in the process, disturb the fundamental conditions upon which the General Government had assented to their re-admission to the right of representation in Congress.

If this is so do not regret them, for they have enabled you to learn the first of your lessons: no bedin may speak in the presence of hizahh, save at their command, and then only in the prescribed manner.

Upon further analysis, a weekly dose of specified minerals matching precisely those found in the benthos were prescribed, and sure enough the spells soon went away.

To this end the psychiatrist prescribed Benzedrine tablets from the Kremlin pharmacy and within two weeks the General Secretary was a pop-eyed wreck.

He would continue treating me with bleomycin, he said, but his regimen would be much more caustic than what Youman had prescribed.

David, and the goodwife has had a flux in the legs this twelvemonth back, but the Lord has showed me singular favour, and my damps are lightened since a leech in Edinburgh prescribed a hyperion of bourtree and rue.

So now she used all the exercises she had been taught, that first day and night, and then the various restimulating exotica prescribed for waning powers, and it was more than seven days in all before she awoke and found her husband gone from the marital couch.

Livia replied that she could not have expressed an opinion had not the Goddess fortunately made a pronouncement on this point in the same dream: that the Mother Confessor would be empowered to prescribe expiatory penances and that the penances should be a matter of holy confidence between the criminal and the Mother Confessor.

Edinburgh to improve, enlarge, and adorn the avenues and streets of that city, according to a concerted plan, to be executed by voluntary subscription: a third, allowing the exportation of wool and woollen yarn from Ireland into any port in Great Britain: and a fourth, prescribing the breadth of the wheels belonging to heavy carriages, that the high roads of the kingdom might be the better preserved.

It can, therefore, no longer be doubted that this wonderful compound is far superior as a remedy for Consumption to cod liver oil, compound Hypophosphites, and the many other agents so highly extolled, and so generally prescribed for this fatal malady by even the more progressive and advanced of the medical profession of our day.