Misprescribe
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To prescribe (a medicine) erroneously.
"Even in a case where the doctor and the pharmacist somehow misprescribed and misdispensed, it seems obvious that the consumer would see that the product was for weight loss and would not accept it in place of an allergy relief medication."
Example
More examples"Even in a case where the doctor and the pharmacist somehow misprescribed and misdispensed, it seems obvious that the consumer would see that the product was for weight loss and would not accept it in place of an allergy relief medication."
Etymology
From mis- + prescribe.
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