Definition of prescription

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Prescription (n.) The act of prescribing, directing, or dictating; direction; precept; also, that which is prescribed..

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Polypharmacy :: Polypharmacy (n.) A prescription made up of many medicines or ingredients.
Spatula :: Spatula (n.) An implement shaped like a knife, flat, thin, and somewhat flexible, used for spreading paints, fine plasters, drugs in compounding prescriptions, etc. Cf. Palette knife, under Palette..
Custom :: Custom (n.) Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage. See Usage, and Prescription..
Usucaption :: Usucaption (n.) The acquisition of the title or right to property by the uninterrupted possession of it for a certain term prescribed by law; -- the same as prescription in common law.
Prescriptively :: Prescriptively (adv.) By prescription.
Warren :: Warren (n.) A place privileged, by prescription or grant the king, for keeping certain animals (as hares, conies, partridges, pheasants, etc.) called beasts and fowls of warren..
Park :: Park (n.) A piece of ground inclosed, and stored with beasts of the chase, which a man may have by prescription, or the king's grant..
Subscription :: Subscription (n.) That part of a prescription which contains the direction to the apothecary.
Signature :: Signature (v. t.) That part of a prescription which contains the directions to the patient. It is usually prefaced by S or Sig. (an abbreviation for the Latin signa, imperative of signare to sign or mark)..
Placebo :: Placebo (n.) A prescription intended to humor or satisfy.
Supersecular :: Superscription (n.) That part of a prescription which contains the Latin word recipe (Take) or the sign /.
Liberty :: Liberty (n.) Privilege; exemption; franchise; immunity enjoyed by prescription or by grant; as, the liberties of the commercial cities of Europe..
Prescription :: Prescription (n.) The act of prescribing, directing, or dictating; direction; precept; also, that which is prescribed..
Prescriptible :: Prescriptible (a.) Depending on, or derived from, prescription; proper to be prescribed..
Direction :: Direction (n.) That which is imposed by directing; a guiding or authoritative instruction; prescription; order; command; as, he grave directions to the servants..
Magistral :: Magistral (a.) Formulated extemporaneously, or for a special case; -- opposed to officinal, and said of prescriptions and medicines..
Dictate :: Dictate (v. t.) A statement delivered with authority; an order; a command; an authoritative rule, principle, or maxim; a prescription; as, listen to the dictates of your conscience; the dictates of the gospel..
Imprescriptible :: Imprescriptible (a.) Not capable of being lost or impaired by neglect, by disuse, or by the claims of another founded on prescription..
Pharmacy :: Pharmacy (n.) The art or practice of preparing and preserving drugs, and of compounding and dispensing medicines according to prescriptions of physicians; the occupation of an apothecary or a pharmaceutical chemist..
Prescript :: Prescript (n.) A medical prescription.
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