prescriptions
Meaning
plural of prescription
prescription
- (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.
- (countable, uncountable) The medicine or treatment provided by such an order.
- (countable, figuratively, uncountable) Any plan of treatment or handling; the treatment or handling thus provided.
- (countable, uncountable) Synonym of enactment, the act of establishing a law, regulation, etc., particularly in writing; an instance of this.
- (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.
- (countable, uncountable) An established time period within which a right must be exercised and after which it is null and permanently unenforceable.
- (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.
- (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Synonym of self-restraint, limiting of one's actions especially according to a moral code or social conventions.
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