Prescription

Prescription has various meanings.


 * Medical prescription, written by a health care professional to a pharmacist
 * Eyeglass prescription, written by an ophthalmologist or an optometrist
 * Contact lens prescription, not interchangeable with eyeglass prescription
 * Linguistic prescription, the laying down of normative language rules
 * Prescription drug, a drug available only by a medical prescription
 * Prescription (law), a doctrine in international law analogous to adverse possession where sovereignty over a territory is transferred from one state to another through prolonged acquiesence by the original sovereign of the recipient state's actions.
 * Period of Prescription, a civil law system analogue to the common law institute of a statute of limitations, applied to periods during which rights and obligations are legally enforceable

Prescription should not be confused with proscription, the public identification and official condemnation of enemies of the state.

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