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What does prescription mean?

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Noun
  1. (law)
    1. The act of prescribing a rule, law, etc..
    2. Also called limitation and negative prescription. A time period within which a right must be exercised, unless the right will be extinguished.
    3. Also called acquisitive prescription and positive prescription. A time period after which a person who has, in the role of an owner, uninterruptedly, peacefully, and publicly possessed another's property acquires the property. The described process is known as acquisition by prescription and adverse possession.
  2. (medicine) A written order, as by a physician or nurse practitioner, for the administration of a medicine or other intervention. See also scrip.
  3. (medicine) The prescription medicine or intervention so prescribed.
  4. (ophthalmology) The formal description of the lens geometry needed for spectacles, etc..
  5. A piece of advice.
Adjective
  1. (of a drug, etc.) only available with a physician or nurse practitioner's written prescription
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