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- DictionaryPre·scrip·tion/prēˈskripSH(ə)n/
noun
- 1. an instruction written by a medical practitioner that authorizes a patient to be provided a medicine or treatment: "he scribbled a prescription for tranquilizers"
- 2. a recommendation that is authoritatively put forward: "effective prescriptions for sustaining rural communities"
Prescription definition: a direction, usually written, by the physician to the pharmacist for the preparation and use of a medicine or remedy.. See examples of PRESCRIPTION used in a sentence.
A prescription, often abbreviated ℞ or Rx, is a formal communication from a physician or other registered healthcare professional to a pharmacist, authorizing them to dispense a specific prescription drug for a specific patient.
A prescription is an order written by a doctor for someone to get a drug that is not available without this permission. If you get a bad ear infection, you'll need a prescription for antibiotics. When your doctor writes a prescription, she's advising you to take a medication that you can only get from a pharmacist.
a piece of paper saying what medicine someone needs or the medicine itself: a doctor's prescription. on prescription. UK (US by prescription) If you get a medicine on prescription, you only get it if you have a written instruction from your doctor. (Definition of prescription from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
prescription. [countable] an official piece of paper on which a doctor writes the type of medicine you should have, and which enables you to get it from a chemist's. prescription for something The doctor gave me a prescription for antibiotics.
4 days ago · A prescription is the piece of paper on which your doctor writes an order for medicine and which you give to a chemist or pharmacist to get the medicine. You will have to take your prescription to a chemist. 2. countable noun. A prescription is a medicine which a doctor has told you to take. The prescription Ackerman gave me isn't doing any good.
noun. Medicine/Medical. a direction, usually written, by the physician to the pharmacist for the preparation and use of a medicine or remedy. the medicine prescribed: Take this prescription three times a day. an act of prescribing. that which is prescribed. Law.
