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What does prescribe mean?

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Verb
  1. To order (a drug or medical device) for use by a particular patient.
  2. To specify as a required procedure or ritual; to lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or rule of action.
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But doctors are admonished to prescribe this pain reliever only with the utmost caution for a patient with limited kidney function.
Nurse practitioners are able to prescribe medications as part of their practice.
Not every woman tolerates oral contraceptives as well as you do, but doctors frequently prescribe them for hard-to-treat acne.
Plenty of people assume that the pharmaceuticals their doctors prescribe are better than herbal medicines.
In the United States once a drug is approved doctors who are willing to do so can prescribe it for off-label uses.
He or she may prescribe medicines, depending on the type of symptoms and their severity.

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