misprescribe
verbEtymology
From mis- + prescribe.
- borrowed from praescrībere
Definitions
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.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for misprescribe. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA