Prescription vs Advice - What's the difference?
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(legal) The act of prescribing a rule, law, etc. .
(legal) A period of time within which a right must be exercised, unless the right is extinguished.
(medicine) A written order, as by a physician or nurse practitioner, for the administration of a medicine or other intervention. See also scrip.
(medicine) The prescription medicine or intervention so prescribed.
(ophthalmology) The formal description of the lens geometry needed for spectacles, etc. .
A piece of advice.
(of a drug, etc. ) only available with a physician or nurse practitioner's written prescription
An opinion recommended or offered, as worthy to be followed; counsel.
(obsolete) Deliberate consideration; knowledge.
Information or notice given; intelligence; as, late advices from France; commonly in the plural. In commercial language, advice usually means information communicated by letter; used chiefly in reference to drafts or bills of exchange; as, a letter of advice.
(legal) Counseling to perform a specific illegal act.
(computing, programming) In aspect-oriented programming, the code whose execution is triggered when a join point is reached.
In lang=en terms the difference between prescription and advice
is that prescription is a period of time within which a right must be exercised, unless the right is extinguished while advice is counseling to perform a specific illegal act.As an adjective prescription
is (of a drug, etc.) only available with a physician or nurse practitioner's written prescription.prescription
English
(wikipedia prescription)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- "Jurisdiction to prescribe " is a state's authority to make its laws applicable to certain persons or activities. -- Richard G. Alexander, Iran and Libya Sanctions Act of 1996: Congress exceeds its jurisdiction to prescribe law. Washington and Lee Law Review, 1997.
- The prescription governing the victim’s right to enter a charge shall be interrupted by virtue of section 95 of the Criminal Code.
- The surgeon wrote a prescription for a pain killer and physical therapy.
- The pharmacist gave her a bottle containing her prescription .
- The optician followed the optometrist's prescription for her new eyeglasses.
- "Early to bed and early to rise" is a prescription for a healthy lifestyle.
Adjective
(head)- Many powerful pain killers are prescription drugs in the U.S.
See also
* proscription ---- ==Jèrriais==Noun
(f)advice
English
Noun
(en-noun)- We may give advice , but we can not give conduct. — Franklin.
- How shall I dote on her with more advice,''' That thus without '''advice begin to love her? — Shakespeare.
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