What's the difference between prescription and subscription?

Prescription


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of prescribing, directing, or dictating; direction; precept; also, that which is prescribed.
  • (n.) A direction of a remedy or of remedies for a disease, and the manner of using them; a medical recipe; also, a prescribed remedy.
  • (n.) A prescribing for title; the claim of title to a thing by virtue immemorial use and enjoyment; the right or title acquired by possession had during the time and in the manner fixed by law.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Treatment termination due to lack of efficacy or combined insufficient therapeutic response and toxicity proved to be influenced by the initial disease activity and by the rank order of prescription.
  • (2) Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, recently proposed a bill that would ease the financial burden of prescription drugs on elderly Americans by allowing Medicare, the national social health insurance program, to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies to keep prices down.
  • (3) Altogether, 29% of the drivers had evidence of alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, prescription or nonprescription stimulants, or some combination of these, in either blood or urine.
  • (4) Using the results of a first evaluation made in 1989, a series of recommendations were made to reduce the prescription of drugs with a low intrinsic value (LIV).
  • (5) They are about to use a newer version to write prescriptions and office visit notes and to find general medical and patient-specific information.
  • (6) Of these 1224 prescriptions, 82.8% were for veterinary preparations, 6.6% were for human preparations and 10.6% were for other drugs.
  • (7) As Kuwait is one of the countries where the total consumption of antibiotics is very high as compared to most of the western countries, we are inclined to assume that this generous policy for the prescription of especially ampicillin and other broad spectrum antibiotics in uncomplicated infections has generated this serious consequence.
  • (8) An analysis of my own practice prescriptions showed that only 31% were repeat prescriptions, and this concurs with national figures.
  • (9) She also claimed Salazar tried to get her to take prescription thyroid medicine to lose weight after the birth of her son.
  • (10) Despite the small number of patients studied, these results suggest the importance of limiting the prescription of 25 OH D3 to children suffering from renal osteodystrophy only after having assessed unequivocally an osteomalacic component by histodynamical criteria.
  • (11) When that prescription was gone, he said he was still in pain, so the doctor wrote a second prescription.
  • (12) Results indicate that special instruction was responsible for improved understanding of the underlying disease and also improved compliance with physicians' prescriptions.
  • (13) The recognition that all minor tranquillizers carry the risk of dependence has had a significant impact in their prescription over the years.
  • (14) The physician's suggestions have significant impact on elderly patients, and a social prescription often enhances a medical regimen.
  • (15) In our countries, a good prescription of analysis would help to reduce hospital costs without modifying the efficiency of the diagnosis approach.
  • (16) Although prostheses are not anatomical avatars, careful appliance prescription and training, coordinated with the child's growth and developmental changes, can optimize the benefits the child derives from the prosthesis.
  • (17) These may be reduced partly by greater care in the prescription and execution of this treatment, but it is impossible to completely avoid them; it is therefore desirable in certain cases to avoid systematic prophylactic treatment by using other first line methods such as early mobilisation, elastic contention, hemodilution or indeed in certain cases the insertion of a vena cava filter.
  • (18) The results suggest that compliance in using the initial prescription for sublingual nitroglycerin can be improved when the physician supervises the first dose.
  • (19) It was concluded that a single spectrum could validly be used to represent both male and female speech in the frequency region important for hearing aid gain prescriptions: 250 Hz through 6300 Hz.
  • (20) Chinese drugs constitute a unique medicinal system that features the following three subsystems: subsystem of medicinal substances consisting of traditional theories such as "four properties and five tastes of drugs" and "the principal, adjuvant, auxiliary and conduct ingredients in a prescription' , etc; subsystem of pharmacological actions comprising the theory of "ascending, descending, floating and sinking", etc; Subsystem of human body's functions incorporating the theory of "drugs to act on the channels".

Subscription


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of subscribing.
  • (n.) That which is subscribed.
  • (n.) A paper to which a signature is attached.
  • (n.) The signature attached to a paper.
  • (n.) Consent or attestation by underwriting the name.
  • (n.) Sum subscribed; amount of sums subscribed; as, an individual subscription to a fund.
  • (n.) The acceptance of articles, or other tests tending to promote uniformity; esp. (Ch. of Eng.), formal assent to the Thirty-nine Articles and the Book of Common Prayer, required before ordination.
  • (n.) Submission; obedience.
  • (n.) That part of a prescription which contains the direction to the apothecary.
  • (n.) A method of purchasing items produced periodically in a series, as newspapers or magazines, in which a certain number of the items are delivered as produced, without need for ordering each item individually; also, the purchase thus executed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) OnLive launched in 2010 and now offers over 200 titles via a subscription-based model.
  • (2) Streaming and subscription revenues rose by more than 50% over the past year to reach $1.1bn, helping overall sales of recorded music in Europe grow for the first time in 12 years, according to figures published yesterday.
  • (3) The Economist, which has just launched a single-copy subscription service and reached an undisclosed settlement with oil tycoon Gennady Timchenko in July, saw UK sales rise 2.6% year on year to 187,341.
  • (4) In that time Beats launched a new range of headphones and portable speakers, designed and manufactured in house, and then in January 2014 the company launched Beats Music – a music streaming subscription service built upon the company’s acquisition of a similar service called MOG in 2012.
  • (5) A review of efforts to formulate basic medical journal lists and a report of a survey of subscriptions held in academic health science libraries is presented.
  • (6) The Conservative MP calling for the BBC licence fee to be replaced with a voluntary subscription is expecting a response to his request for a review of the matter from the culture secretary by the middle of the week.
  • (7) YouView – a joint venture between the BBC, ITV, BT, Channel 4, Channel 5, Arqiva and TalkTalk – aims to replace Freeview as a subscription-free interactive TV service to rival pay-TV giants BSkyB and Virgin Media.
  • (8) The company has leapt from 24 million active users and 6 million paying subscribers in March last year and is the world’s biggest music subscription service.
  • (9) Globally, 20m people paid to use subscription music services in 2012, according to another industry body, the IFPI, which has highlighted streaming's impact in Sweden and Norway as a sign of bright times ahead for other countries.
  • (10) The transport of taurocholate across the brush-border membranes was stimulated in the presence of Na(+) compared with the presence of K(+); stimulation was about 11-fold in the presence of a NaCl gradient (Na(o)>Na(i)), where the subscripts refer to ;outside' and ;inside' respectively, and 4-fold under equilibrium conditions for Na(+) (Na(o)=Na(i)).
  • (11) Nature , one of the world's leading cross-disciplinary scientific journals and owned by the publishing group Macmillan, charges subscriptions for access to its suite of magazines and websites.
  • (12) Speculation about YouTube's plans for a Spotify-style subscription service have been swirling for some time.
  • (13) It is trying to get people to pay for music too: it’s launching its own Spotify rival, YouTube Music Key, with a similar model of a free, ad-supported tier then a £9.99 monthly subscription with more features.
  • (14) YouTube Music Key will sit alongside parent company Google’s existing subscription music service, Google Play Music All Access.
  • (15) Netflix is the most popular film subscription website in the US, with more than 25 million users in its domestic market, Canada and Latin America.
  • (16) Last month, the Sunday Telegraph distributed 72,779 bulks and subscriptions accounted for 321,665 copies.
  • (17) Sales are driven by annual subscriptions, rather than casual purchases – it gets cash up front.
  • (18) We have got a broadcast ecology here that works, the licence fee funded BBC, advertiser-funded services, subscription services as well.
  • (19) "In Midcounties, we are setting up a campaigns fund that will replace the subscription we previously paid to the Co-operative party.
  • (20) It elicited howls of outrage from readers threatening to cancel their subscriptions, insulting Ensley, and wishing the newspaper would not even mention the scandal.