User Contributed Dictionary
- present participle of prescribe
Extensive Definition
Prescription has various meanings.
- Medical prescription, written by a health care professional
- Eyeglass prescription, written by an ophthalmologist or an optometrist
- Contact lens prescription
- Prescription drug, a drug available only by a medical prescription
- Linguistic prescription, the laying down of normative language rules
- Prescription (law), a doctrine in international law about sovereignty over a territory
- Period of Prescription, a civil law system analogue to the common law institute of a statute of limitations, applied to periods during which rights and obligations are legally enforceable
- See also Proscription''
prescribing in Spanish: prescripción
prescribing in French: Prescription
prescribing in Hebrew: מרשם