• Finnish: reseptilääke

• Finnish: resepti

Adjective

prescription

1. (of a drug, etc.) only available with a physician's written prescription

   Many powerful pain killers are prescription drugs in the U.S.

Translations

See also

• proscription

Prescription has various meanings.

• Medical prescription, written by a health care professional
• Eyeglass prescription, written by an ophthalmologist or an optometrist
• Contact lens prescription
• Prescription drug, a drug available only by a medical prescription

• Linguistic prescription, the laying down of normative language rules
• Prescription (law), a doctrine in international law about sovereignty over a territory
• Period of Prescription, a civil law system analogue to the common law institute of a statute of limitations, applied to periods during which rights and obligations are legally enforceable

See also Proscription''

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