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  • Sarahundefined Offline
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    A remedy or cure for what ails you

    A solution to the problem

    Usually a term for medically prescribed drugs

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    • Mernaundefined Offline
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      An instruction written by a medical practitioner that authorizes a patient to be issued with a medicine or treatment.

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      • Hina Muqadasundefined Offline
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        Getting some damn good [road head]. [Rx] = [RoadHead] Extreme.

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        • Sommerundefined Offline
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          (of a drug, etc.) only available with a physician or nurse practitioners written prescription

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            directions prescribed beforehand; the action of prescribing authoritative rules or directions

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              written instructions for an optician on the lenses for a given person

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                available only with a doctors written prescription

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                • AnthonynawoKundefined Offline
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                  The act of prescribing a rule, law, etc..

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                  • Soniaundefined Offline
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                    The prescription medicine or intervention so prescribed.

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                    • AterasDema 0undefined Offline
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                      The formal description of the lens geometry needed for spectacles, etc..

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                        A prescription is a written instruction from a physician, nurse practitioner, or another healthcare professional that authorizes a patient to be provided with a medicine or treatment. It typically includes the type of medication, the dosage, and the frequency of use. It may also refer to advice or recommendation about a future course of action or conduct.

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                          a drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist

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                            (Med.) A direction of a remedy or of remedies for a disease, and the manner of using them; a medical recipe; also, a prescribed remedy. Hence: a written order from a physician for a medication, which allows a patient to legally obtain medication which is required by law to be dispensed only on authorization from a physician or other qualified medical practitioner.

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                              A period of time within which a right must be exercised, unless the right is extinguished.

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                                A written order, as by a physician, for the administration of a medicine or other intervention. See also scrip.

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                                  A piece of advice.

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