Synonyms for prescription
prɪˈskrɪp ʃənpre·scrip·tion

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. prescription

   Synonyms:
   direction, order, recipe, usage, custom

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1. prescriptionnoun

   directions prescribed beforehand; the action of prescribing authoritative rules or directions

   "I tried to follow her prescription for success"

   Synonyms:
   prescription drug, ethical drug, prescription medicine

2. prescription drug, prescription, prescription medicine, ethical drugnoun

   a drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist

   "he told the doctor that he had been taking his prescription regularly"

   Synonyms:
   prescription drug, ethical drug, prescription medicine

3. prescriptionnoun

   written instructions for an optician on the lenses for a given person

   Synonyms:
   prescription drug, ethical drug, prescription medicine

4. prescriptionadjective

   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

   Synonyms:
   prescription drug, ethical drug, prescription medicine

5. prescription(a)adjective

   available only with a doctor's written prescription

   "a prescription drug"

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1. • Direction
   • Medicine
   • Written Communication

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1. prescriptionnoun

   Synonyms:
   custom, usage

2. prescriptionnoun

   Synonyms:
   (Med.) recipe

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1. List of paraphrases for "prescription":

   recipe, prescribing, order, requirement, limitation, prescribed, 'ordonnance, ordinance, recipes

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1. The NCHS:

   Overdose deaths from synthetic opioids( primarily fentanyl) and psychostimulants such as methamphetamine also increased in 2020 compared to 2019. Cocaine deaths also increased in 2020, as did deaths from natural and semi-synthetic opioids( such as prescription pain medication).

2. State Auditor Charlie Janssen:

   There appears to be a lack of internal control with the prescription drugs.

3. Alex Azar:

   Making it possible for Americans to do their own rapid COVID-19 self-test at home by prescription is the latest addition to our constantly expanding arsenal of COVID-19 testing options.

4. Kari Kolstoe:

   We just got a sheet under the doorway [asking] if we need prescription medications in the next seven days, there's tons of issues. I mean, we all have dirty clothes.

5. Liz Cooper:

   Two weeks later it was still there, so I made an appointment with my doctor, got a prescription for an ultrasound, had it done and they knew right away at the ultrasound.