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noun. The action of establishing a rule, law, or direction.

noun. Something that is prescribed; a rule, law, or direction.

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noun. A written order, especially by a physician, for the preparation and administration of a medicine or other treatment.

noun. A prescribed medicine or other treatment.

noun. An ophthalmologist's or optometrist's written instruction, as for the grinding of corrective lenses.

noun. The acquisition of an easement or of title to property by use or occupancy that exceeds the time allowed to another to recover it by statutory right.

noun. The act of prescribing or establishing by rules; that which is prescribed; direction; prescript.

noun. In medicine, a statement, usually written, of the medicines or remedies to be used by a patient, and the manner of using them.

noun. In law, a personal use or possession sufficiently long continued to secure to one or more persons a title or right as against others; the effect on rights of persons of the immemorial or long-continued and uninterrupted enjoyment of a thing, as a right of way or of common, by one person or class or succession of persons rather than by another or others: as, to acquire possession of a thing by prescription.

noun. Hence, more specifically— The acquisition of a right or title by such enjoyment, called sometimes positive or acquisitive prescription.

noun. The loss of a right or title by suffering another to enjoy it, or by neglecting to assert it: called sometimes negative prescription.

noun. The act of prescribing, directing, or dictating; direction; precept; also, that which is prescribed.

noun. A direction of a remedy or of remedies for a disease, and the manner of using them; a medical recipe; also, a prescribed remedy.

noun. A prescribing for title; the claim of title to a thing by virtue of immemorial use and enjoyment; the right or title acquired by possession had during the time and in the manner fixed by law.

noun. The act of prescribing a rule, law, etc..

noun. A period of time within which a right must be exercised, unless the right is extinguished.

noun. A written order, as by a physician, for the administration of a medicine or other intervention. See also scrip.

noun. The prescription medicine or intervention so prescribed.

noun. The formal description of the lens geometry needed for spectacles, etc..

noun. A piece of advice.

adjective. only available with a physician's written prescription

adjective. available only with a doctor's written prescription

noun. written instructions for an optician on the lenses for a given person

noun. a drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist

noun. directions prescribed beforehand; the action of prescribing authoritative rules or directions

noun. 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

"Shouldn't my doctor already know if a certain prescription is right for me?"