Medical prescription, written by a health care professional to a pharmacist

Linguistic prescription, the laying down of normative language rules

Eyeglass prescription, written by an ophthalmologist or an optometrist

Prescription drug, a drug available only by a medical prescription

Period of Prescription, a civil law system analogue to the common law institute of a statute of limitations

Prescription should not be confused with proscription, the public identification and official condemnation of enemies of the state.

Prescription (law), a doctrine in international law analogous to adverse possession where sovereignty over a territory is transferred from one state to another through prolonged acquiesence by the original sovereign of the recipient state's actions.