1. Authoritative recommendations, directions or rules set down to be followed
   "I tried to follow her prescription for success"
    
2. Written instructions from a physician or dentist to a pharmacist concerning the form and dosage of a drug to be issued to a given patient
   "The pharmacist couldn't read the doctor's prescription";
   - Rx
    
3. A drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist
   "he told the doctor that he had been taking his prescription regularly";
   - prescription drug, prescription medicine, ethical drug
    
4. Written instructions for an optician on the lenses for a given person
   "The optometrist wrote a prescription for new glasses"
    
5. (law) the acquiring of rights or property by long use or custom
   "The path became a public right of way through prescription"

1. (medicine) available only with a doctor's written prescription
   "a prescription drug"

Derived forms: prescriptions

Type of: black and white, direction, instruction, med [informal], medicament, medication, medicinal drug, medicine, written communication, written language

Antonym: nonprescription

Encyclopedia: Prescription