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.


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