Prescription

Prescription has various meanings.
*Medical prescription, written by a medical doctor to a pharmacist
*Eyeglass prescription, written by an ophthalmologist or an optometrist
*Prescription and description, in linguistics
*Prescription drug, a drug available only by a medical prescription
*Prescriptive period, similar to statute of limitations, applied to periods during which rights and obligations are legally enforceable
*Prescription (law), a doctrine in international law analogous to adverse possession where sovereignty over a territory is transferred from one state to another through prolonged acquiesence by the original sovereign of the recipient state's actions.

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