English Dictionary

prescription

IPA（発音記号）

/pɹəˈskɹɪpʃən/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 比喩的用法 廃用

(medicine, pharmacy, pharmacology) 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.

日本語の意味

医師やその他の医療従事者が発行する、薬や治療方法を指定する書面（処方箋）

The pharmacist filled my prescription and explained how to take the medication safely.

薬剤師は私の処方箋を用意し、薬の正しい服用方法を説明してくれた。

意味（1）

(medicine, pharmacy, pharmacology) 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.

意味（2）

(medicine) The medicine or treatment provided by such an order.

Oh, yes; she is the only sort of person for a nurse. She always, cried Lady Anne, with a sneer, comes to you with a receipt for a pudding in one hand to make you ill, and then a prescription in the other to cure you.

意味（3）

(figuratively) Any plan of treatment or planned treatment.

Change is the universal prescription for a wounded spirit. It will do you so much good, is the constant remark.

意味（4）

(law) 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.

意味（5）

(linguistics) 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.

意味（6）

(law) An established time period within which a right must be exercised and after which it is null and permanently unenforceable.

意味（7）

(law) An established time period after which a person who has uninterruptedly, peacefully, and publicly used another's property acquires full ownership of it.

意味（8）

(obsolete) 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.

prescriptions （ plural ）