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Prescription   /prəskrˈɪpʃən/   Listen
Prescription

noun
1.
Directions prescribed beforehand; the action of prescribing authoritative rules or directions.
2.
A drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist.  Synonyms: ethical drug, prescription drug, prescription medicine.
3.
Written instructions for an optician on the lenses for a given person.
4.
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.
adjective
1.
Available only with a doctor's written prescription.



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"Prescription" Quotes from Famous Books



... honor in the attempt to make them so. Sooner or later, the submerged part floats to the surface and reappears. Greece becomes Greece again, Italy is once more Italy. The protest of right against the deed persists forever. The theft of a nation cannot be allowed by prescription. These lofty deeds of rascality have no future. A nation cannot have its mark extracted like ...
— Les Miserables - Complete in Five Volumes • Victor Hugo
... humbug and quackery. Like a steward who tricks his master, but keeps the rest of the servants honest, PUNCH will gammon the public to the utmost of his skill, but he will take care that no one else shall exercise a trade of which he claims by prescription the entire monopoly. ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 1, August 28, 1841 • Various
... his stomach in a hanging-garden effect, with terraces rippling down and flying buttresses and all; and if he had a pasty, unhealthy complexion or an apoplectic tint to his skin I said to myself that thenceforth I should apply the reverse English to his favorite matutinal prescription. ...
— One Third Off • Irvin S. Cobb
... page out of the album, and, writing out a prescription, gave him some advice as to what he could do besides. The peasant took the sheet of paper, gave Kapiton half-a-rouble, went out of the room, and took his seat in the cart. 'Well, good-bye, Kapiton Timofeitch, don't remember evil against ...
— A Sportsman's Sketches - Volume II • Ivan Turgenev
... as a prescription. We gulp it down when half frozen, and nearly paralyzed after standing a night in mud and blood and ice, often to the waistline, rarely below the ankle, and it revives us as tea, cocoa or coffee could never do. We are not made ...
— Private Peat • Harold R. Peat


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