prescription

名词 prescription:

1. directions prescribed beforehand; the action of prescribing authoritative rules or directions
2. a drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist
   同义词：prescription drug, prescription medicine, ethical drug
3. written instructions for an optician on the lenses for a given person
4. written instructions from a physician or dentist to a druggist concerning the form and dosage of a drug to be issued to a given patient

形容词 prescription:

1. available only with a doctor's written prescription

1. The doctor dispensed a prescription to his patient.
   医生开处方给病人配药。
2. His prescription for economic recovery was not well received.
   他为经济复苏提出的对策反应不佳。
3. The prescription of drugs is a doctor's responsibility.
   开药方是医生的职责。
4. The doctor is writing a prescription.
   医生正在开处方。

pre.scrip.tion

n.（名词）

The act of establishing official rules, laws, or directions.
立法：建立官方规则，法律或指示的行为
Something prescribed as a rule.
法令，规则：作为条例而规定的东西

A written order, especially by a physician, for the preparation and administration of a medicine or other treatment.
处方，药方：指由医生开出的主要关于药品或疗法的书面指示
A prescribed medicine or other treatment.
处方：处方上的药或其他疗法
An ophthalmologist`s or optometrist`s written instruction, as for the grinding of corrective lenses.
眼科医生所写的处方：由眼科医生或验光师开的书面指示，如为了磨制合适的镜片而开的验光单
A formula directing the preparation of something.
指示：规定某药物的配方
Law The process of acquiring title to property by reason of uninterrupted possession of specified duration.Also called positive prescription
【法律】 获得财产权的程序：因某特定的时间延续而获得财产权的程序也作 positive prescription
Law The limitation of time beyond which an action, a debt, or a crime is no longer valid or enforceable.Also called negative prescription
【法律】 追诉期限：一个时间限制，若超过该时间限制一个行动，债务或罪行则不再有效或不再可实施也作 negative prescription
n.attributive.（定语名词）
Often used to modify another noun:
通常用于修饰另一个名词：
例句：
a prescription drug; a prescription pad.
处方药；医用棉垫

来源：
Middle English prescripcion [establishment of a claim]
中古英语 prescripcion [要求的提出]
from Old French prescription
源自 古法语 prescription
from Medieval Latin praescroptiô praescroptiôn-
源自 中世纪拉丁语 praescroptiô praescroptiôn-
from Latin [introduction, precept]
源自 拉丁语 [引言，戒律]
from praescroptus [past participle of] praescrobere [to order] * see prescribe
源自 praescroptus [] praescrobere的过去分词 [命令] *参见 prescribe