prescription betydelse and definition

Betydelse av prescription på svenska

• 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:

  • The doctor gave me prescriptions for antibiotics and cough syrup.

  • The drugstore called to say your prescription is ready to be picked up.

• 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:

  • These drugs are only available on prescription.

  • The doctor wrote him a prescription for two tablets, 100 mg each for a total of 200 mg a day.

  • prescription medications/medicines/pharmaceuticals