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Prescription (noun)
A written order, as by a physician or nurse practitioner, for the administration of a medicine or other intervention. See also scrip.
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Prescription (noun)
The prescription medicine or intervention so prescribed.
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Prescription (noun)
The formal description of the lens geometry needed for spectacles, etc..
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Prescription (noun)
The act or practice of prescribing norms of language usage. See also prescriptivism.
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Prescription (noun)
An instance of a prescriptive pronouncement.
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Prescription (noun)
A plan or procedure to obtain a given end result; a recipe.
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Prescription (adjective)
only available with a physician or nurse practitioner’s written prescription
“Many powerful pain killers are prescription drugs in the U.S.”
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Perscription (noun)
misspelling of prescription