prescription
nounThe action of establishing a rule, law, or direction.
nounSomething that is prescribed; a rule, law, or direction.
nounA written order, especially by a physician, for the preparation and administration of a medicine or other treatment.
nounA prescribed medicine or other treatment.
nounAn ophthalmologist’s or optometrist’s written instruction, as for the grinding of corrective lenses.
nounThe acquisition of an easement or of title to property by use or occupancy that exceeds the time allowed to another to recover it by statutory right.
nounThe act of prescribing or establishing by rules; that which is prescribed; direction; prescript.
nounIn medicine, a statement, usually written, of the medicines or remedies to be used by a patient, and the manner of using them.