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Prescription has various meanings.

In a health care context:

• Medical prescription, written by a health care professional
• Eyeglass prescription, written by an ophthalmologist or an optometrist
• Property prescription, written by a landscape architect or other natural scientist concerned with client property/plant health
• Contact lens prescription
• Prescription drug, a drug available only by a medical prescription

Other meanings:

• Linguistic prescription, the laying down of normative language rules
• Prescription (law), a doctrine in international law about sovereignty over a territory
• Period of Prescription, a civil law system analogue to the common law institute of a statute of limitations, applied to periods during which rights and obligations are legally enforceable

See also Proscription

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