PRESCRIPTION

• (noun) 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"

  synonyms : ethical drug , prescription drug , prescription medicine

• (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

• (noun) written instructions for an optician on the lenses for a given person

• (noun) directions prescribed beforehand; the action of prescribing authoritative rules or directions

  "I tried to follow her prescription for success"

• (adj.) available only with a doctor's written prescription

  "a prescription drug"

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