Prescription

Prescription, prescriptive, or prescribe may refer to:

Health care

 * Medical prescription, a plan of care written by a physician or other health care professional
 * Prescription drug, a drug available only if prescribed by a medical prescription
 * Eyeglass prescription, written by an ophthalmologist or an optometrist for individuals with eye related concerns.

Law

 * Custom (law), prescriptive right is enjoyed through long use
 * Easement by prescription, acquisition of private property rights through uncontested use
 * Prescription (sovereignty transfer), acquisition of sovereignty through uncontested use
 * Period of prescription, in civil law jurisdictions, the time limit within which a lawsuit must be brought
 * Prescribed sum, the maximum fine that may be imposed on summary conviction of certain offences in the United Kingdom
 * Prescribed senior official, an individual who will be refused admission into Canada because of war crimes or crimes against humanity

Other uses

 * Linguistic prescription, the laying down of normative language rules
 * Prescriptive analytics, third and final phase of business analytics
 * Prescriptive barony, a "feudal" barony in Scotland
 * Prescriptive ethics, normative ethics, as distinct from meta-ethics and descriptive ethics
 * Prescriptive notation, a type of Chinese musical notation