Prescription

• Prescription drug
  Prescription drug
  
  A prescription drug is a medication that is regulated by legislation to require a medical prescription before it can be obtained. The term is used to distinguish it from over-the-counter drugs which can be obtained without a prescription....
  , a drug available only by a medical prescription
• Medical prescription
  Medical prescription
  
  A prescription is a health-care program implemented by a physician or other medical practitioner in the form of instructions that govern the plan of care for an individual patient....
  , a plan of care written by a health care professional
• Eyeglass prescription
  Eyeglass prescription
  
  An eyeglass prescription is a written order by an optometrist or ophthalmologist to an optician for eyeglasses. It specifies the refractive power to which the eyeglasses are to be made in order to correct blurred Visual perception due to refraction error, including myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism , and presbyopia....
  , written by an ophthalmologist or an optometrist

• Linguistic prescription
  Linguistic prescription
  
  In linguistics, prescription can refer both to the codification and the enforcement of rules governing how a language is to be used. These rules can cover such topics as standards for spelling and grammar or syntax, or rules for what is deemed Etiquette or Political correctness correct....
  , the laying down of normative language rules
• Prescription (law)
  Prescription (law)
  
  Prescription is the method of sovereignty transfer of a territory through international law analogous to the common law doctrine of adverse possession for private real-estate....
  , a doctrine in international law about sovereignty over a territory
• Property prescription, concerned with client property/plant health
• Period of prescription, a civil law analogue to the common law statute of limitations

See also

• Proscription
  Proscription
  
  Proscription is the public identification and official condemnation of enemy of the state. It is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as a "decree of condemnation to death or banishment" and is a heavily politically-charged word frequently used to refer to state-approved murder or persecution....