WordNet
n. 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, ethical drug] [ant: over-the-counter drug, over-the-counter drug]
Usage examples of "prescription medicine".
Most Americans consumed quantities of over-the-counter drugs, and one in three was on some sort of prescription medicine all the time.
The hotel manager told me that the police took Pat Malone's prescription medicine along with them.
The hotel manager told me that the police took Pat Ma-lone's prescription medicine along with them.
Yet Hillary thought enough of the liberal arguments to vote against giving the elderly lower cost prescription medicine, joining only thirty-four other Democrats in opposing the bill.
The rest of the space in the second pack was crammed with a bizarre mix of prescription medicine with other people's names on it.
He put the hydrogen peroxide back and then took down the few bottles of prescription medicine in the cabinet one by one, examining their labels.
His troubled widow gave up prescription medicine and joined the Church of Scientology, to which she donated her late husband's entire estate.
In all my years of being a detective, of searching the rooms that belong to missing persons, I've never yet seen a medicine cabinet that didn't contain at least one prescription medicine.