(a.) Consisting in, or acquired by, immemorial or long-continued use and enjoyment; as, a prescriptive right of title; pleading the continuance and authority of long custom.
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".
Proscriptive
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to proscription; consisting in, or of the nature of, proscription; proscribing.
Example Sentences:
(1) Still, I like to believe that these small-scale ventures, too, make some contribution to a conversation without limits or proscriptions; the sine qua non of the sort of society that knows to keep the solemn and the pious at bay.
(2) I am asking you to confirm that you believe members of the Socialist party and the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty should not be allowed to be members of the Labour party, given the proscription of these two groups [then called Militant and Socialist Organiser] by annual conference during Neil Kinnock’s leadership.” A spokesman for Corbyn responded to Watson’s claims: “It’s absolute fantasy and, if this is the way they want to characterise new Labour party members, then it’s not going to do them any favours in the leadership contest.” He added that the party’s policy on refusing to allow members of other parties to join Labour had not changed.
(3) The study's findings may show the effects of a generalized moral value framework in which one large portion of the nation's population, especially females, is subject to pervasive proscriptions of behavioral, including their drinking and sexuality, while others vary in the freedom they find to drink and be sexual.
(4) Extremism banning orders: these will be aimed at “extremist groups that fall short of existing terrorist proscription thresholds”.
(5) For many comics, it is received wisdom that this proscription existed, and that it was a bad thing.
(6) An example is the modelling of state anti-bikie laws upon the anti-terrorism proscription and control order regimes.
(7) The home secretary, Theresa May, said last week that banning orders for extremist groups would be considered again – even if they "fall short of the legal threshold for terrorist proscription" – alongside powers to stop radical preachers.
(8) The states were divided into quartiles based on normative constraints surrounding alcohol use from proscriptive to permissive.
(9) Instead, such alcohol-related problems appear to be a response to the strong cultural disapproval of drinking, with the proscriptively oriented states experiencing the highest rates of disruptive behaviors related to alcohol.
(10) Ethical choices often reflect personal values as well as professional role proscriptions and are difficult to resolve for a number of reasons.
(11) Too many seem to acquire a stylized professionalism replete with general labels, questionable theories, and unfortunate proscriptions.
(12) Normative constraints on drinking were measured by a multi-indicator proscriptive norms index based on religious composition and legal impediments to the purchase and consumption of alcohol.
(13) Prescription came out as perscription or proscription 20% of the time.
(14) The penalties for proscription offences can be a maximum of 10 years in prison or a £5,000 fine.
(15) Today, many of their countrymen and women absurdly proclaim that the legal proscription of homosexuality is an authentic expression of indigenous national culture and tradition.
(16) And where that has failed, the government has shown itself all too willing to step in with proscriptive legislation.
(17) The most proscriptive states are located in the southern region of the United States.
(18) Implementation of good work practices and proscription of use of the 2 pesticide formulations most contaminated with isomalathion halted the epidemic in September.
(19) Although Seventh-day Adventists do not smoke by church proscription, many are adult converts who smoked cigarettes prior to their baptism into the church.
(20) Physiology and emotional experience were studied in the Minangkabau of West Sumatra, a matrilineal, Moslem, agrarian culture with strong proscriptions against public displays of negative emotion.