Prescription has various meanings.

• Medical prescription, written by a health care professional
• Eyeglass prescription, written by an ophthalmologist or an optometrist
• Contact lens prescription
• Prescription drug, a drug available only by a medical prescription

• Linguistic prescription, the laying down of normative language rules
• Prescription (law), a doctrine in international law about sovereignty over a territory
• Period of Prescription, a civil law system analogue to the common law institute of a statute of limitations, applied to periods during which rights and obligations are legally enforceable

See also Proscription

A prescription (℞ is a health-care program implemented by a Physician or other medical practitioner in the form of instructions that govern the plan of care for an individual An eyeglass prescription is a written order by an Optometrist or Ophthalmologist to an Optician for Eyeglasses. A contact lens (also known simply as a contact) is a corrective, cosmetic, or therapeutic lens usually placed on the Cornea A prescription drug is a licensed medicine that is regulated by legislation to require a prescription before it can be obtained In Linguistics, prescription can refer both to the codification and the enforcement of rules governing how a language is to be used Prescription (law is the method of sovereignty transfer of a territory through international law analogous to the Common law doctrine of Adverse possession for private A statute of limitations is a Statute in a Common law Legal system that sets forth the maximum period of time after certain events that legal proceedings Not to be confused with prescription and other meanings of proscription.

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