prescription

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prescriptionspræscription

1.
(countable, uncountable)(medicine, pharmacy, pharmacology) A written order from an authorized medical practitioner for provision of a medicine or other treatment, such as (ophthalmology) the specific lenses needed for a pair of glasses.
The surgeon had written thousands of prescriptions for pain killers without proper examinations before the police raided the clinic.
Đồng nghĩa: scrip, forescript, Rx, ℞
2.
(countable, uncountable)(medicine) The medicine or treatment provided by such an order.
I need you to pick up gramma's prescriptions on your way home.
3.
(countable, figuratively, uncountable)(figurative) Any plan of treatment or handling; the treatment or handling thus provided.
Early to bed and early to rise is a prescription for a long, healthy, and terrible life.
4.
(countable, uncountable)(law) Synonym of enactment, the act of establishing a law, regulation, etc., particularly in writing; an instance of this.
Đồng nghĩa: enactment
5.
(countable, uncountable)(linguistics) The act of establishing or formalizing ideal norms for language use, as opposed to describing the actual norms of such use; an instance of this.
6.
(countable, uncountable)(law) An established time period within which a right must be exercised and after which it is null and permanently unenforceable.
Đồng nghĩa: extinctive prescription, liberative prescription
7.
(countable, uncountable)(law) An established time period after which a person who has uninterruptedly, peacefully, and publicly used another's property acquires full ownership of it.
Đồng nghĩa: acquisitive prescription, usucaption
8.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)Synonym of self-restraint, limiting of one's actions especially according to a moral code or social conventions.
Đồng nghĩa: self-restraint, limiting of one's actions especially according to a moral code or social conventions

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Nguồn gốc từ

Borrowed from Middle French -, from Old French prescripcion, from Latin praescriptio, from prae- (pre-, before) + scribere (to write) + -tio (-tion, forming nouns). Equivalent to prescribe + -tion.