PRESCRIBE

prescribe

Verb

  1. To order (a drug or medical device) for use by a particular patient.
    The doctor prescribed aspirin.
  2. To specify as a required procedure or ritual; to lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or rule of action.


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