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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.
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