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"he told the doctor that he had been taking his prescription regularly"nouna drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacisttype of:
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"a prescription drug"adjectiveavailable only with a doctor's written prescriptionOpposite:
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"I tried to follow her prescription for success"noundirections prescribed beforehand; the action of prescribing authoritative rules or directionstype of:
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nounwritten instructions for an optician on the lenses for a given person
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nounwritten instructions from a physician or dentist to a druggist concerning the form and dosage of a drug to be issued to a given patient
Definition that contains prescription
- prescription available only with a doctor's written prescription
- refill a prescription drug that is provided again
- prescribe (medicine) order the use of (a treatment, medicine, etc.), usually by written prescription
- prn according to need (physicians use PRN in writing prescriptions)
- over-the-counter medicine a drug that is sold without a prescription
- as required according to need (physicians use PRN in writing prescriptions)
- patent medicine medicine that is protected by a patent and available without a doctor's prescription
- pro re nata according to need (physicians use PRN in writing prescriptions)
- nonprescription purchasable without a doctor's prescription
- anabolic steroid any of a group of synthetic steroid hormones used to stimulate muscle and bone growth; more than 100 have been developed and each requires a prescription to be used legally in the United States; sometimes used illicitly by athletes to increase their strength