prescription

  • 11prescription — ► NOUN 1) an instruction written by a medical practitioner authorizing a patient to be issued with a medicine or treatment. 2) the action of prescribing. 3) an authoritative recommendation or ruling. 4) (also positive prescription) Law the… …

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  • 12prescription — (франц.) = Verjahrung (нем.) временные ограничения на осуществление действия или предъявление иска (исковая давность). См. statute of limitations …

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  • 13prescription — *receipt, recipe …

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  • 14prescription — [n] formula, medicine decree, direction, drug, edict, instruction, law, mixture, ordinance, preparation, prescript, recipe, regulation, remedy, rule; concepts 274,307,311,318 …

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  • 15prescription — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ medical ▪ free ▪ You are entitled to free prescriptions. ▪ repeat (BrE) ▪ I just get a repeat prescription every month …

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  • 16prescription — (prè skri psion ; en vers, de quatre syllabes) s. f. 1°   Ordonnance, précepte. Les prescriptions de la morale. 2°   Ordonnance d un médecin.    Un moyen médical, un médicament prescrit. 3°   Terme de jurisprudence. Exception qu on oppose à ceux… …

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  • 17prescription — /pri skrip sheuhn/, n. 1. Med. a. a direction, usually written, by the physician to the pharmacist for the preparation and use of a medicine or remedy. b. the medicine prescribed: Take this prescription three times a day. 2. an act of prescribing …

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  • 18prescription — n. 1) to fill (AE), make up a prescription 2) a prescription for 3) by prescription; on a prescription (to obtain a drug on a doctor s prescription; by prescription only) * * * [prɪ skrɪpʃ(ə)n] make up a prescription on a prescription (to obtain… …

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  • 19prescription — pre|scrip|tion [prıˈskrıpʃən] n 1.) a piece of paper on which a doctor writes what medicine a sick person should have, so that they can get it from a ↑pharmacist →↑prescribe prescription for ▪ a prescription for sleeping pills ▪ We are trying to… …

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  • 20prescription */ — UK [prɪˈskrɪpʃ(ə)n] / US noun Word forms prescription : singular prescription plural prescriptions 1) [countable] a piece of paper that a doctor gives you that says what type of medicine you need The doctor gave me a prescription for antibiotics …

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