Crossword clues for prescription
prescription
- A drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist
- Written instructions for an optician on the lenses for a given person
- 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
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 of it for a certain term prescribed by law; -- the same as prescription in common law.
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 "write before, prefix in writing; ordain, determine in advance," from prae "before" (see pre-) + scribere "to write" (see script (n.)). Medical sense of "written directions from a doctor" first recorded 1570s.
Wiktionary
a. (qualifier: of a drug, etc.) only available with a physician or nurse practitioner's written prescription n. 1 (context legal English) 2 # The act of prescribing a rule, law, etc.. 3 # Also called limitation and negative prescription. A time period within which a right must be exercised, unless the right will be extinguished. 4 # Also called acquisitive prescription and positive prescription. A time period after which a person who has, in the role of an owner, uninterruptedly, peacefully, and publicly possessed another's property acquires the property. The described process is known as acquisition by prescription and adverse possession. 5 (context medicine pharmacy English) A written order, as by a physician or nurse practitioner, for the administration of a medicine or other intervention. See also scrip. 6 (context medicine English) The ''prescription medicine'' or intervention so prescribed. 7 (context ophthalmology English) The formal description of the lens geometry needed for spectacles, ''etc.''. 8 A piece of advice.
WordNet
n. directions prescribed beforehand; the action of prescribing authoritative rules or directions; "I tried to follow her prescription for success"
a drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist; "he told the doctor that he had been taking his prescription regularly" [syn: prescription drug, prescription medicine, ethical drug] [ant: over-the-counter drug, over-the-counter drug]
written instructions for an optician on the lenses for a given person
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
adj. available only with a doctor's written prescription; "a prescription drug" [syn: prescription(a)] [ant: nonprescription(a)]
Wikipedia
Prescription, prescriptive, or prescribe may refer to:
Prescription, in international law, is sovereignty transfer of a territory by the open encroachment by the new sovereign upon the territory for a prolonged period of time, acting as the sovereign, without protest or other contest by the original sovereign. It is analogous to the common law doctrine of easement by prescription for private real estate. This doctrine legalizes de jure the de facto transfer of sovereignty caused in part by the original sovereign's extended negligence and/or neglect of the area in question. Principle of prescription applied in Island of Palmas Case and Minquiers and Ecrehos case.
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.