Definition of Prescriptions. Meaning of Prescriptions. Synonyms of Prescriptions

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Definition of Prescriptions

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Prescription Pre*scrip"tion, n. [F. prescription, L. praescriptio, an inscription, preface, precept, demurrer, prescription (in sense 3), fr. praescribere. See Prescribe.] 1. The act of prescribing, directing, or dictating; direction; precept; also, that which is prescribed. 2. (Med.) A direction of a remedy or of remedies for a disease, and the manner of using them; a medical recipe; also, a prescribed remedy. 3. (Law) A prescribing for title; the claim of title to a thing by virtue immemorial use and enjoyment; the right or title acquired by possession had during the time and in the manner fixed by law. --Bacon. That profound reverence for law and prescription which has long been characteristic of Englishmen. --Macaulay. Note: Prescription differs from custom, which is a local usage, while prescription is personal, annexed to the person only. Prescription only extends to incorporeal rights, such as aright of way, or of common. What the law gives of common rights is not the subject of prescription. Blackstone. Cruise. Kent. In Scotch law, prescription is employed in the sense in which limitation is used in England and America, namely, to express that operation of the lapse of time by which obligations are extinguished or title protected. Sir T. Craig. Erskine.
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Usucaption U`su*cap"tion (?; 277), n. [L. usucapere, usucaptum, to acquire by long use; usu (ablative of usus use) + capere to take: cf. usucapio usucaption.] (Roman Law) The acquisition of the title or right to property by the uninterrupted possession of it for a certain term prescribed by law; -- the same as prescription in common law.

Meaning of Prescriptions from wikipedia

- Look up prescription, prescriptive, or prescribe in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In general, the word prescriptive refers to refer to normative judgments...
- electronic prescriptions may alleviate the need for handwritten prescriptions altogether. In Britain's NHS, remaining paper prescriptions are almost invariably...
- medicine. Most prescriptions are NHS prescriptions, subject to a standard charge that is unrelated to what is dispensed. The NHS prescription fee was increased...
- Therefore, the above prescription would be written as −0.75 −0.25 × 90. Similar to medical prescriptions, eyegl**** prescriptions are written on paper...
- August 2024[update] the prescription charge is £9.90 per item. When the National Health Service was established in 1948 all prescriptions were free. The power...
- are conservative, prescription might appear resistant to language change; if radical, it may produce neologisms. Such prescriptions may be motivated by...
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- use of such prescriptions is encouraged by the National Physical Activity Plan. In Canada, a national program to provide nature prescriptions exists, with...
- in the context of drug prescriptions and other medical prescriptions is at List of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions. Some of these abbreviations...
- supplied; there is no charge for NHS prescriptions in Northern Ireland, Scotland, or Wales. In the UK, a private prescription does not need to be handwritten...