prescription

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A written order from an authorized medical practitioner for provision of a medicine or other treatment, such as (ophthalmology) the specific lenses needed for a pair of glasses.

   “The surgeon had written thousands of prescriptions for pain killers without proper examinations before the police raided the clinic.”

2. isim The medicine or treatment provided by such an order.

   “I need you to pick up gramma's prescriptions on your way home.”

3. isim Any plan of treatment or handling; the treatment or handling thus provided.

   “Early to bed and early to rise is a prescription for a long, healthy, and terrible life.”

4. isim Synonym of enactment, the act of establishing a law, regulation, etc., particularly in writing; an instance of this.

   “A statute that cannot find justification for its prescription in one or more of these principles violates international law.”

5. isim The act of establishing or formalizing ideal norms for language use, as opposed to describing the actual norms of such use; an instance of this.
6. isim An established time period within which a right must be exercised and after which it is null and permanently unenforceable.
7. isim An established time period after which a person who has uninterruptedly, peacefully, and publicly used another's property acquires full ownership of it.
8. isim Synonym of self-restraint, limiting of one's actions especially according to a moral code or social conventions.

   “There is an air of prescription about him which is always agreeable to Sir Leicester; he receives it as a kind of tribute.”