prescription
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3.3
- noun
- /prɪˈskrɪpʃən/
- Specialized
:
receta
- With a flourish, the doctor signed his name and held the prescription out to her.
- write a prescription
- fill a prescription
- a prescription from a doctor
I'm going to write you a prescription for Wouldn't you like to know?
- I'm going to write you a prescription for Wouldn't you like to know?
- That is like a prescription, a pair of prescription glasses that are made for you.
- Not seeming like you are giving them a prescription, right?
- I mean, it's again, I, I write prescriptions and I think there's a time and place.
- I'm writing you a prescription for vitamin sex.
- My sleep is off and they often get a prescription and no explanation about what's happening.
- And CVS has harnessed the power of technology to create an in app reader for prescriptions called Spoken RX.
- And on a hunch, he made me read the pill bottle to him from my prescription, like just on a hunch.
- You are much more likely to change the shape of your eye and therefore the prescription you need.
- We're going to write you a prescription for a cream or an ointment or injections or pills.
- So I went home that day with prescription for the pills and a little box.
- So let's start with these like regular prescription, like reading glasses.
- This right here, this is a prescription pad.
- My hope is that one day you will go to your doctor and part of their prescription will say all right.
Examples
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So I went to a pharmacy to get her prescription refilled.
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The patient must provide the pharmacy with a prescription for the medication and make the co-payment if possible.
Academic text (2002) -
So they gave us the prescription, right?
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Well one time I had a client come in, pick up their prescription and go home and call right back.
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You are much more likely to change the shape of your eye and therefore the prescription you need.
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And what they do is they type on their computer, print out some prescription and they send you off.
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I filled the prescription a week ago.
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This was probably the best she could do without a doctor's prescription.
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Well, here's a prescription for more painkillers.
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I went to the pharmacy to pick up my prescription for antibiotics.
Synonyms
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9.9
A written order from a doctor for medicine
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Morphology
Etymology
Prescription comes from Latin parts prae- 'before' and scribere 'to write'. A prescription is something a doctor or optician 'writes before' treatment, so it is a written order for medicine, treatment, or lenses.