underprescription

noun

Etymology

From under- + prescription.

  1. derived from praescriptio
  2. derived from prescripcion
  3. prefixed as underprescription — “under + prescription

Definitions

  1. Failure to prescribe a drug as often as appropriate, where the appropriateness is defined…

    Failure to prescribe a drug as often as appropriate, where the appropriateness is defined by concepts such as standard of care, clinical guideline recommendations, or similar.

  2. Prescription of an inadequate amount of a drug.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for underprescription. 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