Word Type

Noun

Adjective

The word "prescription" can be used as noun and adjective.

Word Relationships

Opposites (Antonyms)

nonprescription

Typical Location

medicine chest

Derived Terms

coprescription deprescription e-prescription misprescription non-prescription nonprescription overprescription prescription bottle prescription drug prescription glasses prescriptionist prescriptionistic prescriptionless represcription underprescription

Context

legal linguistics medicine ophthalmology pharmacy

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

black and white direction instruction medicament medication medicinal drug medicine written communication written language

Type Of (IsA)

direction document how to thing official document written communication

Related Terms

prescribe prescriptivism

Related Terms

acquire acquisition by prescription acquisitive prescription administration adverse possession after another describe description exercise extinguish formal geometry intervention know law lens limitation medicine negative prescription nurse practitioner order owner peacefully person physician positive prescription possess prescribing prescriptivism process property proscription publicly recipe right role rule scrip spectacles time period uninterruptedly within written

Synonym Network

forescript prescription drug recipe

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