- Medicine/Medical.
- a direction, usually written, by the physician to the pharmacist for the preparation and use of a medicine or remedy.
- the medicine prescribed: Take this prescription three times a day.
- an act of prescribing.
- that which is prescribed.
- Law.
- a long or immemorial use of some right with respect to a thing so as to give a right to continue such use.
- the process of acquiring rights by uninterrupted assertion of the right over a long period of time.
- the loss of rights to legal remedy due to the limitation of time within which an action can be taken.
- (of drugs) sold only upon medical prescription; ethical.
- written instructions from a physician, dentist, etc, to a pharmacist stating the form, dosage strength, etc, of a drug to be issued to a specific patient
- the drug or remedy prescribed
- (of drugs) available legally only with a doctor's prescription
- written instructions from an optician specifying the lenses needed to correct defects of vision
- (as modifier)
- the act of prescribing
- something that is prescribed
- a long established custom or a claim based on one
- law
- the uninterrupted possession of property over a stated period of time, after which a right or title is acquired (positive prescription)
- the barring of adverse claims to property, etc, after a specified period of time has elapsed, allowing the possessor to acquire title (negative prescription)
- the right or title acquired in either of these ways
