PRESCRIPTION


Meaning of PRESCRIPTION in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

available

I pause here to point out that items such as dressings are available on prescription .

It is usually prescribed for women after their available only through prescription .

The morning-after pill is to be available without prescription at chemists from the new year.

The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved the first drug test available without a prescription .

These are marketed under various names, including Rehidrat, Dioralyte and Gluco-lyte, and are available on prescription .

Starting in April, the hair-growth liquid will be sold over the counter after years of being available only by prescription .

Like Viagra, Ixense will in principle target men, and will be available only on prescription .

Nicorette is only available on prescription .

free

If a higher age is fixed, women would be denied free prescriptions and bus passes at 60.

Company magazine backs a campaign and petition to keep all brands of the Pill available free on prescription in its latest issue.

The benefits are free prescriptions , optical and dental charges and help with fares to hospitals.

So what have the free-market prescriptions accomplished?

Under the changes, needy and elderly people and those who currently get free prescriptions on medical grounds will remain exempt.

If you can't get free prescriptions Prescription charges From 1 April 1989, each item on a prescription will cost £2.80.

new

At each visit, any unused tablets were returned to check on compliance and a new prescription issued.

Standard high-tech stuff like ultrasound imaging and the latest hypertension drugs are available along with various New Age prescriptions .

More recently, coupons have appeared on over-the-counter drugs, such as antacids, and new prescription products.

■ NOUN

charge

People requiring regular medication would also be exempt from prescription charges .

From this gross total is deducted the amount they collect in prescription charges .

We have not sought to extend the list of conditions which entitle a sufferer to exemption from prescription charges .

My Bill would exempt many of them from prescription charges .

It allows no commitment to freezing prescription charges , although these would be reduced by 30p.

When prescription charges were introduced, the special clinics were exempted, and treatment continues to be free.

drug

And yes, there is a prescription drug for that-Revia, from Du Pont.

The Food and Drug Administration Tuesday announced a program aimed at providing consumers with better information about prescription drugs.

It hopes to sell Tagamet, now a prescription drug , this way.

The autopsy would eventually show that Mom had taken three different prescription drugs .

HMOs are fleeing Arizona's rural counties, leaving seniors with rising prescription drug bills and no coverage.

So do Gore's hopes of securing a universal prescription drug benefit for the elderly.

Most senior citizens also lack coverage for prescription drugs and dental care, which are not covered by Medicare.

Within the pharmaceutical division, prescription drug sales rose 9 percent in local currencies.

policy

Health policy did not escape this intellectual challenge, but policy prescription can not be assumed to lead to policy change.

To this scene of disarray they brought a bold policy prescription unknown to Malthus: family planning.

This potential weakness has to be borne in mind when macroeconomic models are used as a basis for policy prescription .

repeat

Y'know, I just get a repeat prescription every week.

Get the repeat prescriptions in time so that he is never left without.

■ VERB

fill

I don't want to fill a prescription .

Rite Aid led drugstores in refusing to fill the prescriptions on the basis that they would lose money.

One by one, chains operating stores in Maryland told state workers they would have to go elsewhere to fill prescriptions .

follow

Moreover, farm subsidies undermine the efforts of developing countries to follow Washington's economic prescriptions .

Those not following their prescriptions deserve to be punished.

give

Campus Health Centres will give advice on prescription and dental charges.

Richard saw a shrink, who gave him a prescription for antidepressants.

One old man remembered that a visit as a child to the doctor did not result in being given a prescription .

Like other doctor gurus, he was giving women prescriptions in feminine morality, from a distinctly male point of view.

If you've already been wearing glasses you must still be given a prescription , even if your sight hasn't changed.

offer

Both were concerned to offer prescriptions as to how organisations should be run with a view to particular management ends.

For the elderly, Medicare HMOs offer prescription coverage and other extras at no added cost.

provide

Doctors are required to cite a study confirming the proven medical benefits of the drug and provide a written prescription .

receive

Results Characteristics of patients receiving sildenafil prescriptions are reported in Table 1.

write

In any case some of those officials are themselves busy moonlighting as doctors and writing prescriptions .

Doctors are required to cite a study confirming the proven medical benefits of the drug and provide a written prescription .

He nodded and wrote a prescription for Dexamethazone.

The doctor looked dubiously at her stomach, sighed, and wrote her a prescription for more sedatives.

I never wrote prescriptions for imaginary patients.

All hand written domiciliary prescriptions were transferred to the computer and recorded in the study.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

repeat order/prescription

Repeat orders Dated-product manufacturers will try and sell out by year-end, so repeat orders before Christmas can be a problem.

Also, Haines reckons that fair play has helped it win repeat orders.

Coupon not required for repeat orders.

Get the repeat prescriptions in time so that he is never left without.

It has to win repeat orders.

They can produce repeat prescriptions when the doctor so authorises.

Y'know, I just get a repeat prescription every week.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

With my insurance, prescriptions cost a maximum of $5.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

According to the researchers, more than 8 million prescriptions were written for nasal steroids in 1993.

But a disciplinary hearing of the Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland was told he sold the product without a prescription .

Jeffrey was refused help with the prescription for his inhaler because the Department of Health said his income exceeded the required level.

Once caricatured as far-Right-wingers, they were dependable for their unsolicited robust views on hanging, repatriation and grisly prescriptions for homosexuals.

So do Gore's hopes of securing a universal prescription drug benefit for the elderly.

Then I stopped off to do a bit of shopping, cash in Betty Y's prescription etcetera.

This prescription is for a controlled substance.

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