Misprescribe

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 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

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"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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