prescription
US: /pɹəsˈkɹɪpʃən/
UK: /pɹɪskɹˈɪpʃən/
UK: /pɹɪskɹˈɪpʃən/
English Vietnamese dictionary
prescription /pris'kripʃn/
- danh từ
- sự ra lệnh, sự truyền lệnh, sự sai khiến
- mệnh lệnh, sắc lệnh
- (y học) sự cho đơn; đơn thuốc
- (pháp lý) thời hiệu
- (nghĩa bóng) phong tục tập quán lâu đời được viện ra (để biện minh cho cái gì)
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun
1 [C] (abbreviation Rx) ~ (for sth) an official piece of paper on which a doctor writes the type of medicine you should have, and which enables you to get it from a CHEMIST/PHARMACIST (= a person who has been trained to prepare medicines): The doctor gave me a prescription for antibiotics. + Antibiotics are only available on prescription. + They are not available without a prescription. + prescription drugs / medication(s)
2 [C] medicine that your doctor has ordered for you: The pharmacist will make up your prescription. + prescription charges (= in Britain, the money you must pay for a medicine your doctor has ordered for you)
3 [U] the act of prescribing medicine: The prescription of drugs is a doctor's responsibility.
4 [C] ~ (for sth) (formal) a plan or a suggestion for making sth happen or for improving it: a prescription for happiness + Both parties will be outlining their prescription for economic recovery.
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 formula, recipe, instruction, direction:
The prescription is for three tablets a day, and this dose must not be exceeded.
2 remedy, medication, medicine, drug, preparation, medicament:
That prescription had no effect at all on my headache.
Collocation dictionary
ADJ.
medical | free
people who get free prescriptions
| repeat
I just get a repeat prescription every week.
VERB + PRESCRIPTION
give sb, write (out) | make up
Would you like to wait while the pharmacist makes up your prescription?
PRESCRIPTION + NOUN
charge | drug, medicine
PREP.
on ~
Some drugs are only available on prescription.
| ~ for
the usual prescription for asthma She gave him a prescription for antibiotics.
Concise English dictionary
prescriptionsprɪ'skrɪpʃn
noun
+directions prescribed beforehand; the action of prescribing authoritative rules or directions
+a drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist
+written instructions for an optician on the lenses for a given person
+written instructions from a physician or dentist to a druggist concerning the form and dosage of a drug to be issued to a given patient
adj.
+available only with a doctor's written prescription
