Prescription Definition–noun | 1. | Medicine/Medical. | a. | a direction, usually written, by the physician to the pharmacist for the preparation and use of a medicine or remedy. | | b. | the medicine prescribed: Take this prescription three times a day. | | | 2. | an act of prescribing. | | 3. | that which is prescribed. | | 4. | Law. | a. | Also called positive prescription. a long or immemorial use of some right with respect to a thing so as to give a right to continue such use. | | b. | Also called positive prescription. the process of acquiring rights by uninterrupted assertion of the right over a long period of time. | | c. | Also called negative prescription. the loss of rights to legal remedy due to the limitation of time within which an action can be taken. | | –adjective | 5. | (of drugs) sold only upon medical prescription; ethical. Compare over-the-counter (def. 2). | |
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Medicine Definition–noun | 1. | any substance or substances used in treating disease or illness; medicament; remedy. | | 2. | the art or science of restoring or preserving health or due physical condition, as by means of drugs, surgical operations or appliances, or manipul
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ations: often divided into medicine proper, surgery, and obstetrics. | | 3. | the art or science of treating disease with drugs or curative substances, as distinguished from surgery and obstetrics. | | 4. | the medical profession. | | 5. | (among North American Indians) any object or practice regarded as having magical powers. | –verb (used with object) | 6. | to administer medicine to. | —Idioms | 7. | give someone a dose or taste of his or her own medicine, to repay or punish a person for an injury by use of the offender's own methods. | | 8. | take one's medicine, to undergo or accept punishment, esp. deserved punishment: He took his medicine like a man. | |
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