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Prescription
Prescription has various meanings.
- Generally, a prescription is a statement that someone ought to do or not to do something.
- A medical prescription is an order by a medical doctor to a pharmacist for a drug to be provided to the doctor's patient.
- A eyeglass prescription is an order by an ophthalmologist to an optician for eyeglasses.
- Under the civil law or civil code prescriptions are those periods during which rights and obligations are legally enforceable. Similar to the common law system concept of limitation periods.
- In linguistics, prescription is the laying down or prescribing of normative rules of the language.
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