prescription
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noun
1. an instruction written by a medical practitioner that authorizes a patient to be provided a medicine or treatment:
【薬の】処方箋 «for»
e.g. he scribbled a prescription for tranquilizers
e.g. antidepressants available only by prescription
e.g. as modifier : prescription drugs.
the action of prescribing a medicine or treatment:
(薬を)処方すること
e.g. the unnecessary prescription of antibiotics.
a medicine or remedy that is prescribed:
処方された薬, (医師に)指示された治療
e.g. I've got to pick up my prescription.
2. a recommendation that is authoritatively put forward:
〖通例a ～〗 «…のための» 提案, 構想 «for» .
e.g. effective prescriptions for sustaining rural communities.
the authoritative recommendation of an action or procedure:
e.g. rather than prescription there would be guidance.
3. (also positive prescription) Law the establishment of a claim founded on the basis of a long or indefinite period of uninterrupted use or of long-standing custom.
正当だと考えられる権利, 古い慣習
〘法〙 取得時効
ORIGIN
late Middle English (as a legal term): via Old French from Latin praescriptio(n-), from the verb praescribere (see prescribe). prescription (sense 1) dates from the late 16th century.