Definition: 1. Directions prescribed beforehand; the action of prescribing authoritative rules or directions. 2. A drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist. 3. Written instructions for an optician on the lenses for a given person.
Use 'prescription' in a sentence:
1. This is my prescription, and she must go tomorrow.
2. Antibiotics are only available on prescription.
3. Most users of prescription drugs don't worry about costs a lot.
4. Antibiotics are only available by prescription.
5. The doctor gave me a prescription for antibiotics.
6. That herbal prescription has been lost to posterity.
7. This prescription is especially good for backaches.
8. The doctor made out a prescription for me.
9. "Presumably it's because it's simple and easy to write a prescription and consider a patient case closed rather than investigate further," Polman says.
10. Zhuang Zi continued: "The man who got the prescription felt as if he had gotten 1000 pieces of gold. He went to the King of Wu to sell this idea." At the time, the State of Yue invaded the state of Wu.
11. She made a mental note to have his prescription refilled.
12. You will have to take your prescription to a chemist.
13. The physician made a prescription against sea-sickness for him.
14. Yang Ting, 24, has been wearing non-prescription lenses 12 hours a day for the past six months.
15. I'm not sleeping even with the prescription Ackerman gave me.
16. Still, 32 percent of the pharmacies filled the prescriptions.
17. Take this prescription to the chemist's.
18. Presumably it's because it's simple and easy to write a prescription and consider a patient case closed rather than investigate further, Polman says.
19. Since then, while the firm remained small, it had achieved a merited reputation for high-quality prescription products.
20. The pharmacist will make up your prescription.
21. The prescription Ackerman gave me isn't doing any good.
22. They are not available without a prescription.
23. Have three doses of this prescription made up at the Chinese pharmacy.
24. Her main job was filling the doctor's prescriptions.
25. The drug is available on prescription only.
26. There is no clear right or wrong prescription to the extent that a solution is needed.
27. Are you taking any other medicines whether on prescription or bought over the counter?
28. That's because the prescription drugs available for the flu need to be taken soon after the illness sets in.
29. I'd also like to get this prescription filled.
30. I would have got HIV from my mother if she hadn't had access to prescription AIDS medicines when she was pregnant.
31. May I get this prescription refilled?
32. Until very recently, Presorbin and Veltrex, two medications used to block excess stomach acid, were both available only with a prescription written by a doctor.
33. Nicola got her prescription for strep.
34. A proposed law would allow general advertising of prescription medications.
35. The doctor has made a prescription.
36. The processing technology, prescription and principle of chaffy-dish were discussed emphasizedly.
37. The common prescription is to primarily shop the grocery store, since that's where fresh produce, meat and seafood, and dairy are.
38. You'll have to get a new prescription.
39. If the doctor says you will get better by yourself, then this is a powerful prescription in itself.
40. By many accounts, the technology has helped reduce medical error by providing instant access to patient data or prescription details.
41. We mustn't miss this opportunity! ’ Consequently, the whole family agreed to sell the prescription."
42. Four out of five prescriptions are dispensed free to people who are exempt.
43. Until there is evidence that the benefits of a daily dose of alcohol outweigh the risks, most people won't be able to take a doctor's prescription to the neighbourhood bar or liquor store.
44. A pharmacist can fill any prescription if, in his or her judgment, the prescription is valid.
45. Some supplements can interfere with prescription drugs and too much can cause neuropathy and in severe cases, organ damage.
46. When getting a new prescription, make sure the lenses have an antireflective coating.
47. It is illegal to advertise prescription medications in Hedland except in professional medical journals or by mail directly to physicians.
48. Many flu medications are available without a prescription.
49. You're in trouble if you have to buy your own brand-name prescription drugs.
50. The prescription specifies seven medicinal herbs.
51. And patients are the ones who pay—in the form of sky-rocketing prescription prices—for every pen that's handed out, every free theatre ticket, and every steak dinner eaten.
52. The new drug will not require a physician's prescription.
53. The hospital of traditional Chinese medicine installed a computer to fill prescriptions.
