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Noun: prescription medicine
  1. 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 medicine regularly";
    - prescription drug, prescription, ethical drug

Derived forms: prescription medicines

Type of: medicament, medication, medicinal drug, medicine

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