prescription
Definition 1
General: Authoritative recommendation or guideline.
Definition 2
Law: Acquisition or extinction of a claim, interest, or right by the lapse of time.
Definition 3
Medicine: Order for medication, therapy, or treatment for a specified patient, given by a person (such as a physician) properly authorized to give it to the person (such as a pharmacist or physiotherapist) properly authorized to dispense, follow, or perform it.
prescription is in the Corporate, Commercial, & General Law and Entrepreneurship, Management, & Leadership subjects.
prescription appears in the definitions of the following terms: doctrine of contra non valentem, formulary, prescribe, paternalism and health maintenance organization (HMO)
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