prescription: Meaning and Definition of

pre•scrip•tion

1. Take this prescription three times a day.
1. a direction, usually written, by the physician to the pharmacist for the preparation and use of a medicine or remedy.
2. the medicine prescribed:Take this prescription three times a day.
2. an act of prescribing.
3. that which is prescribed.
1. a long or immemorial use of some right with respect to a thing so as to give a right to continue such use.
2. the process of acquiring rights by uninterrupted assertion of the right over a long period of time.

1. (of drugs) sold only upon medical prescription; ethical. Cf.(def. 2).