prescription
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prescription (plural prescriptions)
- The act of prescribing a rule, law, etc..
- "Jurisdiction to prescribe" is a state's authority to make its laws applicable to certain persons or activities. -- Richard G. Alexander, Iran and Libya Sanctions Act of 1996: Congress exceeds its jurisdiction to prescribe law. Washington and Lee Law Review, 1997.
- (medicine) A written order, as by a physician, for the administration of a medicine or other intervention. See also scrip.
- The surgeon wrote a prescription for a pain killer and physical therapy.
- (medicine) The medicine or intervention so prescribed.
- The pharmacist gave her a bottle containing her prescription.
- (ophthalmology) The formal description of the lens geometry needed for spectacles, etc..
- The optician followed the optometrist's prescription for her new eyeglasses.
- An advice.
- "Early to bed and early to rise" is a prescription for a healthy lifestyle.
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the act of prescribing a rule or law
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written order for the administration of a medicine
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the prescribed medicine
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formal description of the lens geometry
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prescription
- (of a drug, etc.) only available with a physician's written prescription
- Many powerful pain killers are prescription drugs in the U.S.
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available with prescription
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