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Medical prescription

A prescription in the medical context, often abbreviated as ℞ or Rx in North America, is a formal communication from physicians or other registered healthcare professionals to a pharmacist, authorizing them to dispense a specific prescription drug for a specific patient. Historically, it was a physician's instruction to an apothecary listing the…

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Different from
U+0052 R LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R
See also
U+2695 ⚕ STAFF OF AESCULAPIUS

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Writing prescriptions

Non-prescription drug prescriptions

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Medical prescription

Nodes102
Edges101
Triples26
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.019608
Components1

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Medical prescription

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See also · 9
Medical prescription → Charges, Drug, Eyeglass, Form, IrelandPrivate, Order, U+2695 ⚕ STAFF OF AESCULAPIUS, UK NHS, Use
related to history · 9
Medical prescription → BCE, Ebla, Latin, Modern, So, Syria, The, This, Today
Different from · 1
Medical prescription → U+0052 R LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R
In Unicode · 1
Medical prescription → .mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace}U+211E ℞ PRESCRIPTION TAKE (℞)

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Medical prescriptionDifferent fromU+0052 R LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R1.00infobox
Medical prescriptionIn Unicode.mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace}U+211E ℞ PRESCRIPTION TAKE (℞)1.00infobox
Medical prescriptionSee alsoU+2695 ⚕ STAFF OF AESCULAPIUS1.00infobox
dressingsinstance ofNon-prescription drug prescriptionsOver-the-counter medications and non-controlled medical supplies0.80text
which do not require a prescriptioninstance ofNon-prescription drug prescriptionsOver-the-counter medications and non-controlled medical supplies0.80text
may also be prescribedinstance ofNon-prescription drug prescriptionsOver-the-counter medications and non-controlled medical supplies0.80text
common quantitiesinstance ofThe modified forms also contain predefined choices0.80text
unitsinstance ofThe modified forms also contain predefined choices0.80text
frequencies that the prescriber may circle rather than write outinstance ofThe modified forms also contain predefined choices0.80text
Medical prescriptionrelated to historyThe0.60section
Medical prescriptionrelated to historySo0.60section
Medical prescriptionrelated to historyEbla0.60section

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