prescription

  1. Noun.  (legal) The act of prescribing a rule, law, ''etc.''.
  2. Noun.  (legal) A period of time within which a right must be exercised, unless the right is extinguished.
  3. Noun.  (medicine) A written order, as by a physician, for the administration of a medicine or other intervention. See also scrip.
  4. Noun.  (medicine) The ''prescription medicine'' or intervention so prescribed.
  5. Noun.  (context, ophthalmology) The formal description of the lens geometry needed for spectacles, ''etc.''.
  6. Noun.  A piece of advice.
  7. Adjective.  (''of a drug, etc.'') only available with a physician's written prescription.

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