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