n. an order written by a doctor for medicine to treat a patient; the act of prescribing or the thing prescribed
The doctor gave me a new prescription.
The doctor gave me a new prescription.
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How did Matilda know the prescription that Theobald had written to cure Nathaniel's eyesight?
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The pharmacist filled the prescription.
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She took an accidental overdose of the prescription drug.
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What does the doctor write a prescription for?
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The doctor who wrote the prescription obviously suffered from cacography.
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How did the woman whose husband was sick give Milton the prescription for the drugstore?
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The druggist refilled my prescription.
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directions; instructions; formula; medicine
nonprescription
3 syllables
pre-scrip-tion
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