prescription

/pɝˈskɹɪpʃən/noun

An official written instruction from a doctor authorizing a patient to receive a medicine or treatment, such as glasses of a certain strength.

Example sentence

“The doctor wrote me a prescription for antibiotics.”

In American English you 'fill' a prescription at the pharmacy. Abbreviated Rx on labels and signs.

Related words

bandageA length of soft fabric wrapped around an injured part of the body to cover or support it.dentistA doctor whose specialty is caring for and treating teeth.woundDamage to the body, usually on the outside, such as a cut, stab, or tear.vitaminPlaced before a word or its first letter to suggest that the thing named is good for health or wellbeing.breatheTo take air into the lungs and push it back out, supplying the body with oxygen and removing waste gases.allergyAn immune-system overreaction to a normally harmless substance, specifically the type I form driven by immunoglobulin E antibodies.