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Word: prescription (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Adjective:

  • (''of a drug, etc.'') only available with a physician's written prescription

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Noun:

  • An advice.
  • ophthalmology The formal description of the lens geometry needed for spectacles, ''etc.''.
  • medicine A written order, as by a physician, for the administration of a medicine or other intervention. See also scrip.
  • medicine The medicine or intervention so prescribed.
  • The act of prescribing a rule, law, ''etc.''.

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