prescribed medicine

collocation in English

meaningsofprescribedandmedicine

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prescribed
adjective
uk
/prɪˈskraɪbd/us
/prɪˈskraɪbd/
set by a rule ...
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medicine
noun
uk
/ˈmed.ɪ.sən/us
/ˈmed.ɪ.sən/
treatment for illness or injury, or the study ...
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(Definition ofprescribedandmedicinefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofprescribed medicine

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Theprescribedmedicineshould depend on the person's pregnancy.
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Costs accrued due to changed use ofprescribedmedicinewere estimated on the basis of individual but encrypted data on prescribed medicine from a central prescription register.
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Corex is aprescribedmedicine.
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The decision about the period of treatment for which aprescribedmedicineis supplied is one for the prescribing doctor.
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I am not raising the question of the doctor whoprescribedmedicinewhich was useless in this case.
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Therefore, unless the patient is exempt by reason of poverty he tends to do without theprescribedmedicine.
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In the case of aprescribedmedicinethat may impair ability to drive, it is the doctor's responsibility to warn his patient of the danger.
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Her condition worsened, and her parents became alarmed, finally relenting and administering theprescribedmedicine.
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The physicians lied that the emperor was ill with smallpox andprescribedmedicineand treatment for smallpox.
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She was transported by ambulance to a hospital, where a doctorprescribedmedicineand told her to have absolute bed rest.
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