prescribed
Americanadjective
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dictated or indicated as a rule or course of action to be followed.
To limit your definition of art to certain prescribed forms is to cut yourself off from the bulk of human existence.
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Medicine/Medical. (of a medicine, treatment, etc.) recommended or ordered by a qualified practitioner.
Test results for legal or prescribed drugs are returned in about two minutes.
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In 2024, brand-name drugs still under patent protection accounted for just one in 10 of the drugs prescribed to patients and 87.7% of the costs.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
By one measure, the area in Canada treated with prescribed burns annually collapsed from more than 35,000 hectares in 1990 to 182 hectares in 2023, a 99.5% decline.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
The woman was prescribed sodium valproate in the 90s for seizures, and was taking it during two of her four pregnancies.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Dalziel notes that acetaminophen and ibuprofen are among the medicines most often prescribed or purchased over the counter for babies around the world.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
One aunt prescribed to her sisters the elixir of large doses of castor oil during the last weeks of pregnancy.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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