misprescribe

verb

Etymology

From mis- + prescribe.

  1. borrowed from praescrībere
  2. prefixed as misprescribe — “mis + prescribe

Definitions

  1. To prescribe (a medicine) erroneously.

    • Even in a case where the doctor and the pharmacist somehow misprescribed and misdispensed, it seems obvious that the consumer would see that the product was for weight loss and would not accept it in place of an allergy relief medication.
    • Disagreeing with Iowa’s nosologist, Ms. Petersen says the lethal consequences of overprescribed or misprescribed drugs are too readily accepted as “natural” death.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA