Prescription
From Wikinfo
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.
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Prescription" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescription, used under the GNU Free Documentation License
