Prescription
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Prescription has various meanings.
- Medical prescription, written by a health care professional to a pharmacist
- Eyeglass prescription, written by an ophthalmologist or an optometrist
- Contact lens prescription, not interchangeable with eyeglass prescription
- Linguistic prescription, the laying down of normative language rules
- 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.
- Period of Prescription, a civil law system analogue to the common law institute of a statute of limitations
Prescription should not be confused with proscription, the public identification and official condemnation of enemies of the state.
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