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prescription

English

  1. 🔊 written instructions from a physician or dentist to a druggist concerning the form and dosage of a drug to be issued to a given patient
  2. 🔊 written instructions for an optician on the lenses for a given person
  3. 🔊 directions prescribed beforehand
    “I tried to follow her prescription for success”
  4. 🔊 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”

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