Prescription
[prɪ'skrɪpʃ(ə)n] or [prɪ'skrɪpʃən]
Definition
(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' .
Checker: Maryann--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of prescribing, directing, or dictating; direction; precept; also, that which is prescribed.
(n.) A direction of a remedy or of remedies for a disease, and the manner of using them; a medical recipe; also, a prescribed remedy.
(n.) A prescribing for title; the claim of title to a thing by virtue immemorial use and enjoyment; the right or title acquired by possession had during the time and in the manner fixed by law.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Custom, usage.[2]. (Med.) Recipe.
Checked by Abram
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Direction, order, recipe, usage, custom,[See CUSTOM]
Typist: Rosa
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
Editor: Omar
Examples
- Here's a cigar, and the doctor has a prescription containing hot water and a lemon, which is good medicine on a night like this. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Who could know that Lydgate's prescription would not be better disobeyed than followed, since there was still no sleep? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The one grand recipe remains for you--the profound philosophical prescription--the be-all and the end-all of your strange existence upon earth. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The fat of the lion, hippopotamus, crocodile, goose, serpent, and wild goat, in equal parts, served as a prescription for baldness. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The Babylonian books of medic ine contained strange interminglings of prescription and incantation. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Occupation, Prescription, Accession, and Succession. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The laboratory records bear the fullest witness that he has consistently followed out this prescription to the utmost. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He had established his right to the corner, by imperceptible prescription. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- She wants perfect freedom, I think, more than any other prescription. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- In that case long possession or prescription naturally takes place, and gives a person a sufficient property in any thing he enjoys. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- There could be no question about the prescription: it was a copy of one of Mrs. Hatch's, obligingly furnished by that lady's chemist. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Libra, a pound, understood in prescription to apply to an officinal pound of 5,760 grains. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- I confess, said Lydgate, smiling, amusement is rather an unsatisfactory prescription. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Pas beaucoup, was the answer, as the doctor hastily scribbled with his pencil some harmless prescription. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- There is an air of prescription about him which is always agreeable to Sir Leicester; he receives it as a kind of tribute. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- But that would not have been opposed to ordinary prescriptions, even of first-rate men. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Physicians' prescriptions carefully prepared,” and all the rest of it. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- In the main it is a collection of prescriptions for the eyes, ears, stomach, to reduce tumors, effect purgation, etc. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- In the preparation of this work the object has been to present all the best as well as the latest practical receipts, prescriptions, and trade secrets. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Change of air--change of scene; those are my prescriptions, pursued the practical young doctor. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The prescriptions have been reproduced, after careful thought, in the form in which they were originally written. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Dr. John wrote harmless prescriptions for the patient, and viewed her mother with a shrewdly sparkling eye. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Prescriptions poured in from all quarters, and as usual, were all declined. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- It is true Lydgate was constantly visiting the homes of the poor and adjusting his prescriptions of diet to their small means; but, dear me! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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