Prescription

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Prescription may refer to:

Health care

• Prescription medication, a drug available only by a medical prescription
• Medical prescription, a plan of care written by a physician or other health care professional
• Eyeglass prescription, written by an ophthalmologist or an optometrist

Other uses

• Prescription (sovereignty transfer), a doctrine in international law about sovereignty over a territory
• Custom (law), prescriptive right is enjoyed through long use
• Linguistic prescription, the laying down of normative language rules
• Period of prescription, a civil law analogue to the common law statute of limitations

See also

• Proscription

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