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Prescription vs Polypharmacy - What's the difference?

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In context|medicine|lang=en terms the difference between prescription and polypharmacy

is that prescription is (medicine) the prescription medicine or intervention so prescribed while polypharmacy is (medicine) the use of multiple drugs to treat multiple concurrent disorders in the same patient; especially the indiscriminate prescription of many drugs to elderly patients.

As nouns the difference between prescription and polypharmacy

is that prescription is (legal) the act of prescribing a rule, law, etc while polypharmacy is (medicine) the use of multiple drugs in a single prescription.

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)
  • (legal) The act of prescribing a rule, law, etc. .
    • "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.
  • (legal) A period of time within which a right must be exercised, unless the right is extinguished.
    • The prescription governing the victim’s right to enter a charge shall be interrupted by virtue of section 95 of the Criminal Code.
  • (medicine) A written order, as by a physician or nurse practitioner, for the administration of a medicine or other intervention. See also scrip.
    • The surgeon wrote a prescription for a pain killer and physical therapy.
  • (medicine) The prescription medicine or intervention so prescribed.
    • The pharmacist gave her a bottle containing her prescription .
  • (ophthalmology) The formal description of the lens geometry needed for spectacles, etc. .
    • The optician followed the optometrist's prescription for her new eyeglasses.
  • A piece of advice.
    • "Early to bed and early to rise" is a prescription for a healthy lifestyle.

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (of a drug, etc. ) only available with a physician or nurse practitioner's written prescription
    • Many powerful pain killers are prescription drugs in the U.S.

    See also

    * proscription ---- ==Jèrriais==

    Noun

    (f)

    • polypharmacy

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia polypharmacy) (-)
  • (medicine) The use of multiple drugs in a single prescription
  • (medicine) The use of multiple drugs to treat multiple concurrent disorders in the same patient; especially the indiscriminate prescription of many drugs to elderly patients