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Meaning of prescription

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  prescription
      adj 1: available only with a doctor's written prescription; "a
             prescription drug" [ant: {nonprescription(a)}, {over-the-
             counter(a)}]
      n 1: directions prescribed beforehand; the action of prescribing
           authoritative rules or directions; "I tried to follow her
           prescription for success"
      2: 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" [syn:
         {prescription drug}, {prescription}, {prescription medicine},
         {ethical drug}] [ant: {over-the-counter drug}, {over-the-
         counter medicine}]
      3: written instructions for an optician on the lenses for a
         given person
      4: 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

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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