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'Prescription' has various meanings.

★ Medical prescription, written by a health care professional to a pharmacist

★ Eyeglass prescription, written by an ophthalmologist or an optometrist

★ Linguistic prescription, the laying down of normative language rules

★ Prescription drug, a drug available only by a medical prescription

★ Prescriptive period, similar to statute of limitations, applied to periods during which rights and obligations are legally enforceable

★ Prescription (law), a doctrine in international law analogous to adverse possession where sovereignty over a territory is transferred from one state to another through prolonged acquiesence by the original sovereign of the recipient state's actions.

★ ''Period of Prescription'', a civil law system analogue to the common law institute of a statute of limitations
Prescription should not be confused with proscription, the public identification and official condemnation of enemies of the state.