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Prescription
Prescription Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Prescription?
[n] a drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist; "he told the doctor that he had been taking his prescription regularly"
[n] 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 [n] written instructions for an optician on the lenses for a given person [n] directions prescribed beforehand; the action of prescribing authoritative rules or directions; "I tried to follow her prescription for success" Synonyms | Synonyms for Prescription: ethical drug | prescription drug | prescription medicine Related Terms | Find terms related to Prescription: See Also | direction | instruction | medicament | medication | medicinal drug | medicine | refill | written communication | written language Prescription In Webster's Dictionary \Pre*scrip"tion\, n. [F. prescription, L.
praescriptio, an inscription, preface, precept, demurrer,
prescription (in sense 3), fr. praescribere. See
{Prescribe}.]
1. The act of prescribing, directing, or dictating;
direction; precept; also, that which is prescribed.
2. (Med.) A direction of a remedy or of remedies for a
disease, and the manner of using them; a medical recipe;
also, a prescribed remedy.
3. (Law) A prescribing for title; the claim of title to a
thing by virtue immemorial use and enjoyment; the right or
title acquired by possession had during the time and in
the manner fixed by law. --Bacon.
That profound reverence for law and prescription
which has long been characteristic of Englishmen.
--Macaulay.
Note: Prescription differs from custom, which is a local
usage, while prescription is personal, annexed to the
person only. Prescription only extends to incorporeal
rights, such as aright of way, or of common. What the
law gives of common rights is not the subject of
prescription. Blackstone. Cruise. Kent. In Scotch law,
prescription is employed in the sense in which
limitation is used in England and America, namely, to
express that operation of the lapse of time by which
obligations are extinguished or title protected. Sir T.
Craig. Erskine.
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