prescription medicine
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3.3
- noun
- /prɪˈskrɪpʃən ˈmɛdɪsɪn/
:
medicamento recetado
- If you need a refill, be sure to contact your doctor for your prescription medicine.
So MDMA and psilocybin are both in clinical trials to become prescription medicines.
- So MDMA and psilocybin are both in clinical trials to become prescription medicines.
Examples
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As of 2010, one-third of U.S. adults reported going without needed care, including prescription medicines, because of costs.
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Next time you decide to toss that prescription medicine because it appears to have expired, you may want to think twice.
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"Among health care services that are covered by insurance, prescription medicines get the least coverage.
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The prescription medicine the obstetrician had given her was doing its job.
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According to the FDA, patients should only buy prescription medicine through online pharmacies that:
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Even among Americans who have insurance, 14 million don't have the kind of insurance that covers the prescription medicines they need.
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There is some literature on drug misuse and abuse, but it is primarily related to prescription medicines.
Academic text (1991) -
Of this group of people with rheumatoid arthritis, 60 percent said it was just as effective as their prescription medicines.
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Still, many supplements interact with prescription medicines, and often they can be potentially life-threatening.
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African Americans are the least able to afford regular medical checkups, prescription medicines, and even over-the-counter medications.
Academic text (2006)
Synonyms
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3.0
A medicine you can get only with a doctor's written order
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3.3
A medicine you can only get with a written order from a doctor
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3.2
A medicine a doctor tells you to take
A medicine you can only get with a prescription from a doctor or dentist
Antonyms
How Restricted
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'prescription' (a written medical order) with 'medicine' (a drug): it denotes medicine that requires such an order. This is a straightforward attributive noun construction found cross-linguistically and follows regular English composition patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both words should understand it.
Etymology
Prescription medicine comes from the old practice of doctors writing a note called a prescription for a pharmacist to prepare the medicine. The written note showed what drug to give and how to use it, so today prescription medicine means medicines you can only get with a doctor's written order.