prescription
English
/pɹəˈskɹɪpʃən/
noun
Definitions
- (legal)
- (medicine) A written order, as by a physician or nurse practitioner, for the administration of a medicine or other intervention. See also scrip.
- (medicine) The prescription medicine or intervention so prescribed.
- (ophthalmology) The formal description of the lens geometry needed for spectacles, etc..
- (linguistics) The act or practice of laying down norms of language usage, as opposed to description, i.e. recording and describing actual usage.
- (linguistics) An instance of a prescriptive pronouncement.
- A plan or procedure to obtain a given end result; a recipe.
- (obsolete) Circumscription; restraint; limitation.
Etymology
Derived from Old French prescripcion derived from Latin praescriptio.
Origin
Latin
praescriptio
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- deprescription English
- e-prescription English
- misprescription English
- nonprescription English
- overprescription English
- prescriptionist English
- prescriptionistic English
- prescriptionless English
- represcription English
- underprescription English
- praescribo Latin
- praescriptio Latin
- praescriptio, praescriptionem Latin
- prescription French
- prescripcion Old French
- prescription Norman