prescription medicine

collocation in English

meaningsofprescriptionandmedicine

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prescription
noun
uk
/prɪˈskrɪp.ʃən/us
/prɪˈskrɪp.ʃən/
a piece of paper on which a doctor writes the details of the medicine or drugs that ...
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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 ofprescriptionandmedicinefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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A particular feature of the report and the order is that classical price competition is absent in theprescriptionmedicinemarket.
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The cause of death was an accidental drug overdose on aprescriptionmedicine.
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All participants agreed that adrafinil should be classified as aprescriptionmedicine.
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As the product is aprescriptionmedicine, it would be used only after the prescriber had weighed the expected benefit against the possible risks to the particular patient.
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In short, parallel trade is the purchase by an entrepreneur of a brandedprescriptionmedicinein a low-price country and its sale in a high-price country.
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She then drives to a vacant parking lot and washes down handfuls ofprescriptionmedicinewith alcohol.
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In many countriesprescriptionmedicineis required to include labels that disclose drug contents, directions for use and precautions for use.
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Like other alkyl nitrites, amyl nitrite is bioactive in mammals, being a vasodilator, which is the basis of its use as aprescriptionmedicine.
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And so it is not uncommon to hear writers lament that the only cure for history is a good psychiatrist and a lot ofprescriptionmedicine.
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The exemption card for user fee group 1 covers approved patient charges paid to doctors, psychologists and outpatient clinics and for x-rays, patient travel and blueprescriptionmedicineand equipment.
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