prescription

Betekenis (Engels)

1. (countable, uncountable) A written order from an authorized medical practitioner for provision of a medicine or other treatment, such as (ophthalmology) the specific lenses needed for a pair of glasses.
2. (countable, uncountable) The medicine or treatment provided by such an order.
3. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) Any plan of treatment or handling; the treatment or handling thus provided.
4. (countable, uncountable) Synonym of enactment, the act of establishing a law, regulation, etc., particularly in writing; an instance of this.
5. (countable, uncountable) The act of establishing or formalizing ideal norms for language use, as opposed to describing the actual norms of such use; an instance of this.
6. (countable, uncountable) An established time period within which a right must be exercised and after which it is null and permanently unenforceable.
7. (countable, uncountable) An established time period after which a person who has uninterruptedly, peacefully, and publicly used another's property acquires full ownership of it.
8. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Synonym of self-restraint, limiting of one's actions especially according to a moral code or social conventions.

Sinonieme

recipe

formula

order

instruction

prescript

prescription drug

prescription medicine

command

ethical drug

prescribe

limitation

statute of limitations

medical prescription

injunction

commandment

designate

law

behest

rule

mandate

medication

remedy

orders

ordinance

regulation

leading

ordain

pharmaceutics

pharmacopoeia

precept

privilege

provide

provisions

requisition

right

statute

stipulations

summons

teaching

ultimatum

writ

prohibition

making allowances for

pharmacy

prescribed remedy

statute of limitation

limitation of action

limitation of actions

quality requirements

advice

Vertalings

ordonnance

prescription

Rezept

prescrizione

recept

receta

ricetta

prescripción

prescrição

voorschrift

receita

Vorschrift

Verordnung

συνταγή

Verschreibung

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/pɹəˈskɹɪpʃən/

Etimologie (Engels)

Borrowed from Middle French, from Old French prescripcion, from Latin praescriptio (“preface; pretext; something written ahead of time”), from prae- (“pre-, before”) + scribere (“to write”) + -tio (“-tion, forming nouns”). Equivalent to prescribe + -tion.