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Prescription may refer to:

Health care

• Prescription drug, 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

• Linguistic prescription, the laying down of normative language rules
• Prescription (law), a doctrine in international law about sovereignty over a territory
• Property prescription, concerned with client property/plant health
• Period of prescription, a civil law analogue to the common law statute of limitations

[edit] See also

• Proscription

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