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prescription

• (a) available only with a doctor's written prescription
  • a prescription drug

Nouns

• (n) directions prescribed beforehand; the action of prescribing authoritative rules or directions
  • I tried to follow her prescription for success
• (n) a drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist
  • he told the doctor that he had been taking his prescription regularly
  ethical drug, prescription drug, prescription medicine,
• (n) written instructions for an optician on the lenses for a given person
• (n) 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

Synonyms

ethical drug prescription drug prescription medicine

Antonyms

nonprescription over-the-counter over-the-counter drug over-the-counter medicine

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