GC: n
S: NCBI – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK538424/ (last access: 14 December 2024); NIH – https://nida.nih.gov/research-topics/prescription-medicines (last access: 14 December 2024).
N: 1. late 14c., prescripcioun, in law, “a title or right acquired through long use or uninterrupted possession,” from Old French prescription (13c.) and directly from Latin praescriptionem (nominative praescriptio) “a writing before, order, direction,” noun of action from past participle stem of praescribere “write before, prefix in writing; ordain, determine in advance,” from prae “before” (see pre-) + scribere “to write” (from PIE root *skribh- “to cut”).
Meaning “act of establishing by rules” is from 1540s. The medical sense of “written directions from a doctor of the medicines or remedies to be used by a patient and the manner of using them” is recorded by 1570s. The word has been confused with proscription at least since c. 1400.
also from late 14c.
2. A written direction for a therapeutic or corrective agent.
specifically: one for the preparation and use of a medicine.
3. Pharmacology: prescription, Rx.
- Directions for preparation and administration of a remedy or treatment.
4. PAJLO; Property Law (common law): prescription.
- Prescription, in its broadest sense, may be defined as the effect of lapse of time in creating or extinguishing property interests. As appears from this definition, it has two aspects, the one, that of creating, the other, that of extinguishing interests. In the first it operates positively, in the second, negatively. Prescription as defined above extends to both corporeal and incorporeal interests. (“Restatement of the Law of Property”, p. 2922)
5. Collocations:
- adj + noun: medical prescription, free prescription, repeat prescription.
- verb + noun: give sb + prescription, write (out) + prescription | make up + prescription.
- noun + noun: charge prescription, drug prescription, medicine prescription.
- preposition + noun: on prescription | prescription for.
S: 1. Etymonline – https://www.etymonline.com/word/prescription#etymonline_v_19450 (last access: 14 December 2024). 2. MW – https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prescription (last access: 14 December 2024). 3 & 4. TERMIUM PLUS (last access: 14 December 2024). 5. OZDIC – https://ozdic.com/collocation/prescription (last access: 14 December 2024).
SYN: Rx (depending on context)
S: TERMIUM PLUS (last access: 14 December 2024)
CR: family physician, physician, patient, sick person.
