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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

... I shall be all right," he said, as he hastened from the room. It was characteristic of him that he forgot his clinical thermometer, and was never known to have a prescription-pad ...

— Life at High Tide - Harper's Novelettes • Various

... Germans, and may be included as still another indication of the universal desire to take refuge behind forms, and laws, and fixed customs, the universal desire to shrink from depending upon their own judgment and initiative. They will not even bow or kiss a lady's hand, without a prescription from a social physician ...

— Germany and the Germans - From an American Point of View (1913) • Price Collier

... family, and confine him to his own house, to accommodate their punishment to his feeling and apprehension. For to him whom fasting would make more healthful and more sprightly, and to him to whose palate fish were more acceptable than flesh, the prescription of these would have no curative effect; no more than in the other sort of physic, where drugs have no effect upon him who swallows them with appetite and pleasure: the bitterness of the potion and the abhorrence of the patient are necessary ...

— The Essays of Montaigne, Complete • Michel de Montaigne

... for delay in correspondence, because "so ill as to be scarce kept out of bed." In such a state, and for one whose frame had been racked and weakened by three years spent in the damp heat of the tropics, a winter's trip to the Baltic was hardly the best prescription; but thither the "Albemarle" was sent,—"it would almost be supposed," he wrote, "to try my constitution." He was away on this cruise from October to December, 1781, reaching Yarmouth on the 17th of the latter month, with a large convoy ...

— The Life of Nelson, Vol. I (of 2) - The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain • A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

... precious disintegrating agent! They haven't it with them, it seems. To manufacture it in sufficient quantity would be impossible in any civilised country without fear of detection or interruption. Brande has the prescription, formula—what do you call it?—and if you ...

— The Crack of Doom • Robert Cromie

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