Synonyms:
prescription(a)
Meaning: available only with a doctor's written prescription; "a prescription drug"
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
prescription
Meaning: directions prescribed beforehand; the action of prescribing authoritative rules or directions; "I tried to follow her prescription for success"
Synonyms:
prescription_drug, prescription, prescription_medicine, ethical_drug
Meaning: a drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist; "he told the doctor that he had been taking his prescription regularly"
Usage examples
I certainly asked her for the prescription.
"Of course you asked her for the prescription?" I said.
"I must make a prescription that is to be called for soon."
I ask how prescription could take effect where a contrary title and possession already existed?
is simply His secret for the alleviation of human life, His prescription for the best and happiest method of living.
For sore throat, snail slime was a favorite prescription, and mouse flesh was considered excellent for disease of the lungs.
The above prescription was given to me many years ago by the late Dr. Walsh (Stonehenge), and I have found it of great service, both for my own eyes, also those of animals and birds.
The Countess, he said, had lain in danger of her life for the past two days; but after carefully following out Tronchin's singular prescription, she was now sufficiently recovered to receive visitors that evening.
The patient was in a somewhat critical condition, so Dr. Beaton hastily turned to a writing-table near at hand to write a prescription for her, and in so doing beheld among the trinkets on the table a miniature of Prince Charles, attired in the very uniform the doctor had seen him in at Culloden.
It macerates its opium and percolates its own laudanum and paregoric. To this day pills are made behind its tall prescription desk--pills rolled out on its own pill-tile, divided with a spatula, rolled with the finger and thumb, dusted with calcined magnesia and delivered in little round pasteboard pill-boxes.