0 a piece of paper on which a doctor writes the details of the medicine or drugs that someone needs:
a doctor's prescription
a prescription for sedatives
The doctor should give you a repeat prescription (= another piece of paper allowing more of the same medicine to be given, often without the person seeing the doctor again).
These drugs are only available on prescription (= with a prescription from a doctor).
Prescription charges (= the standard amount of money you pay for any medicine prescribed by a doctor) are rising in June.
1 the act of telling someone else what they must have or do:
So what is his prescription for success?
2 a doctor’s written direction for the medicine that someone needs and how it is to be used, or the medicine itself:
3 rules or a situation that will have a particular effect:
The company’s reorganization could be a prescription for disaster.
4 a doctor's written instruction for the medicine that someone needs and for how it should be used:
The doctor wrote him a prescription for two tablets, 100 mg each for a total of 200 mg a day.
prescription medications/medicines/pharmaceuticals
I was given the wrong tablets when the chemist misread my prescription.
I got a prescription for some stronger painkillers.
I must take that prescription to the chemist.
When I bought my new glasses, they threw in a free pair of prescription sunglasses.
The prevalence of various symptoms and prescriptions for antibiotics and antiviral medications were also found to be independent of virus variant.
The probabilities here can be derived from statistical data on the relative frequency of prescriptions of drugs under given conditions.
Prescription of, or scope for, ceremonial usage was very largely (though not totally) expunged.
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