directions prescribed beforehand; the action of prescribing authoritative rules or directions
<noun.communication> I tried to follow her prescription for success
a drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist
<noun.artifact> he told the doctor that he had been taking his prescription regularly
written instructions for an optician on the lenses for a given person
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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.communication> [ adj ]
available only with a doctor's written prescription
<adj.all> a prescription drug
Prescription \Pre*scrip"tion\ (pr[-e]*skr[i^]p"sh[u^]n), n. [F. prescription, L. praescriptio, an inscription, preface, precept, demurrer, prescription (in sense 3), fr. praescribere. See {Prescribe}.] 1. The act of prescribing, directing, or dictating; direction; precept; also, that which is prescribed.
2. (Med.) A direction of a remedy or of remedies for a disease, and the manner of using them; a medical recipe; also, a prescribed remedy. Hence: a written order from a physician for a medication, which allows a patient to legally obtain medication which is required by law to be dispensed only on authorization from a physician or other qualified medical practitioner. [1913 Webster +PJC]
3. (Law) A prescribing for title; the claim of title to a thing by virtue of immemorial use and enjoyment; the right or title acquired by possession had during the time and in the manner fixed by law. --Bacon.
That profound reverence for law and prescription which has long been characteristic of Englishmen. --Macaulay.
Note: Prescription differs from custom, which is a local usage, while prescription is personal, annexed to the person only. Prescription only extends to incorporeal rights, such as a right of way, or of common. What the law gives of common rights is not the subject of prescription. --Blackstone. --Cruise. --Kent. In Scotch law, prescription is employed in the sense in which limitation is used in England and America, namely, to express that operation of the lapse of time by which obligations are extinguished or title protected. --Sir T. Craig. --Erskine.
Usucaption \U`su*cap"tion\ (?; 277), n. [L. usucapere, usucaptum, to acquire by long use; usu (ablative of usus use) + capere to take: cf. usucapio usucaption.] (Roman Law) The acquisition of the title or right to property by the uninterrupted possession of it for a certain term prescribed by law; -- the same as {prescription} in common law.
But even as President Bush offered his prescription for the economy in last night's State of the Union address, the growing refrain among local leaders is: "We can't wait for Washington."
But until now the New York group and other buyers clubs have only imported drugs that do nt require a prescription in the foreign country.
The Food and Drug Administration will hold a hearing next week to review continuing reports that a widely used prescription acne drug is linked to birth defects.
Twelve-page pink pamphlets are being handed out on street corners across the country, sounding frightening alarms in bold-face type about Ritalin, a prescription drug used for three decades to calm hyperactive children.
Lab tests of the pills revealed they matched those from a prescription vial of nitroglycerin in Ms. Rangel's home, Robleto said.
She claimed Lynch controlled her by injecting her with overdoses of a prescription pain-killer she needed for a back ailment.
Diagnostek jumped 2 to 20 1/4 after signing a contract with the Teamsters union to provide prescription drugs to retired union members by mail.
The only prescription drugs now covered by Medicare are a handful of particularly expensive ones such as anti-rejection medication for organ transplant patients.
The plan also would limit, starting Jan. 1, the amount that beneficiaries must pay for hospital care, physician services, medical supplies and prescription drugs and would expand other health care benefits as well.
Anyone wishing to legally obtain such drugs had to travel abroad and get a prescription from a physician there.
He does not distinguish between growth and the environmental damage it produces, which can often be reduced by forethought or regulation, so he has no prescription for reducing that damage except reducing growth.
Pfizer's top management is focusing the bulk of efforts to support its pharmaceutical operations, which have been booming in recent months due in part to sales of several new prescription medicines.
Other provisions, including coverage of outpatient prescription drugs, should be stripped from the program to lower costs, he said.
In particular, the agency is closely scrutinizing a spate of direct-to-consumer ads for certain prescription drugs.
Moreover, the AARP Pharmacy Service estimates that the vast majority of its prescription products are priced such that the pharmacy service would not be entitled to a full administrative fee.
A counselor, concluding that man and wife were bored, told her to fix herself up (she was dowdy) and told him to add romance to the relationship. Candlelight dinners and flowers were part of the prescription.
The tax isn't to be applied to basic groceries, prescription drugs, and medical services.
Such drugs are available only through a doctor's prescription, but many patients continue to be given the drugs months or years after examination by a doctor, the study's principal author said Wednesday.
Also asked to participate in the meeting were associations representing the prescription and over-the-counter drug industries. Also likely to attend are officials of the Federal Trade Commission, which oversees advertising of over-the-counter drugs.
The FDA, under Commissioner David Kessler, approved 30 new prescription drugs in 1991, seven more than the previous year.
On pharmaceuticals, the ministers agreed to ban general ads for prescription medicines and to set standards on ads aimed at the medical profession.
Analysts say American Home's research operations have been slow to develop several potential blockbusters that management hoped would replace its older prescription drug products.
While Warner has its Lopid prescription drug to boost its shares, Rorer's products "aren't that attractive," says Ms. Corp.
And if you are ready to pay the price, just go on." Now the son is following his own peacetime prescription, to study.
On another matter, McDowell said it completed the acquisition of 80% of Interpharm Inc., a closely held Plainview, N.Y., developer and maker of over-the-counter and prescription drugs.
We don't possess that skill, we have no ready prescription to solve all our problems quickly." The interview was conducted 11 days before President Reagan's arrival in Moscow for a five-day summit with Gorbachev.
Supporters of the regime agree with Mr. Castro that the peasant markets bred "profiteering" and that the correct prescription for Cuba is more work.
Upjohn's prescription drug Halcion is being investigated for safety by the FDA.
Restricting prescription discounts "prevents potentially destructive price wars that could erode the integrity of pharmaceutical services," the state court said.
Aggressive marketing is also preparing the ground for the sale of Zovirax as a treatment for cold sores, without a prescription. Mr Robb denies that the business of selling low-technology OTC cures is out of place in a research-driven company.