Prescription
WordNet
noun
(1) 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"
(2) 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
(3) Written instructions for an optician on the lenses for a given person
(4) Directions prescribed beforehand; the action of prescribing authoritative rules or directions
"I tried to follow her prescription for success"
WiktionaryText
Noun
- 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.
- 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.
- The medicine or intervention so prescribed.
- The pharmacist gave her a bottle containing her prescription.
- 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.
Adjective
prescription
- (of a drug, etc.) only available with a physician's written prescription
- Many powerful pain killers are prescription drugs in the U.S.