prescription
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
prescription/prɪˈskrɪpʃn/
▶noun
- 1 an instruction written by a medical practitioner that authorizes a patient to be issued with a medicine or treatment.
- 2 the action of prescribing.
- 3 an authoritative recommendation or ruling.
- 4 (also positive prescription) Law the establishment of a claim founded on the basis of long usage or custom.
'prescription' also found in these Oxford entries:
counter
- dispense
- ethical
- fill
- imprescriptible
- non-prescription
- off-label
- patent medicine
- prescribe
- recipe
- repeat
- script
- signature
- stat
- usucaption
