prescription

Definitions of prescription in various dictionaries:

noun - directions prescribed beforehand

noun - a drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist

noun - written instructions for an optician on the lenses for a given person

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

adj - available only with a doctor's written prescription

The act of establishing official rules, laws, or directions.

Something prescribed as a rule.

A written order, especially by a physician, for the preparation and administration of a medicine or other treatment.

A prescribed medicine or other treatment.

An ophthalmologist’s or optometrist’s written instruction, as for the grinding of corrective lenses.

A formula directing the preparation of something.

The process of acquiring title to property by reason of uninterrupted possession of specified duration.

The limitation of time beyond which an action, a debt, or a crime is no longer valid or enforceable.