<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Medicine/Medical: a direction, usually written, by the physician to the pharmacist for the preparation and use of a medicine or remedy.</li><li>The medicine prescribed: Take this prescription three times a day.</li><li>An act of prescribing.</li><li>That which is prescribed.</li><li>Law: a long or immemorial use of some right with respect to a thing so as to give a right to continue such use.</li><li>The process of acquiring rights by uninterrupted assertion of the right over a long period of time.</li><li>The loss of rights to legal remedy due to the limitation of time within which an action can be taken.</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>(of drugs) sold only upon medical prescription; ethical.</li></ul>