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subscription

 [sub-skrip´shun]
the third chief part of a drug prescription, comprising directions to be followed by the pharmacist in its preparation.

sub·scrip·tion

(sŭb-skrip'shŭn),
The part of a prescription preceding the signature, in which are the directions for compounding.
[L. subscriptio, fr. subscribo, pp. -scriptus, to write under, subscribe]

subscription

/sub·scrip·tion/ (-skrip´shun) that part of a prescription giving directions for compounding the ingredients.

sub·scrip·tion

(sŭb-skrip'shŭn)
The part of a prescription preceding the signature giving directions for compounding.
[L. subscriptio, fr. subscribo, pp. -scriptus, to write under, subscribe]

prescription

signed, written formula for a medicinal preparation, made out by a designated practitioner, and consisting of:

  • inscription names and amounts of drugs ordered

  • signature dose and times of dosing

  • subscription designated drug form

  • superscription recipient details

sub·scrip·tion

(sŭb-skrip'shŭn)
Part of prescription preceding signature, which has directions for compounding.
[L. subscriptio, fr. subscribo, pp. -scriptus, to write under, subscribe]

subscription

the third chief part of a drug prescription, comprising directions to be followed by the pharmacist in its preparation.
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Rich and generous as he knew his mistress to be, her proposal to pay the whole subscription took the steward by surprise.
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Dexter, the brother, undertaking to be answerable for whatever money was to be required while the subscriptions were being collected, and only stipulating that when Miserrimus Dexter was removed to the asylum, Ariel should accompany him.
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The wag of the ministry, Bixiou, sent round a paper, headed by a caricature of his victim on a pasteboard horse, asking for subscriptions to buy him a live charger.
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Talking on in this strain, as fast as he could, to prevent any friendly remonstrances from the collector of the subscription on the large amount of his donation, Mr Cheeryble led Nicholas, equally astonished and affected by what he had seen and heard in this short space, to the half-opened door of another room.
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This subscription was successful beyond all expectation; notwithstanding that it was a question not of lending but of giving the money.
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Then, you were to pay up your subscription, get your card of membership and your riband and medal, and were evermore to live upon a platform, and evermore to say what Mr.
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One might for instance get up a subscription for her, or a lottery, something of the sort, such as is always arranged in such cases by friends or even outsiders desirous of assisting people.
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The price of the paper was two dollars a year, but he took in three subscriptions for half a dollar apiece on con- dition of them paying him in advance; they were going to pay in cordwood and onions as usual, but he said he had just bought the concern and knocked down the price as low as he could afford it, and was going to run it for cash.
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Well, Emelia told me the other day that once, when he had to collect subscriptions, official sanction was demanded for every single coin, since people thought that it would be no use paying their money to a poor man.
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But the consequence is, that the whole profession in Middlemarch have set themselves tooth and nail against the Hospital, and not only refuse to cooperate themselves, but try to blacken the whole affair and hinder subscriptions.
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With a grace all her own, Cecilia dived under the bed, and produced a basket of jam tarts, a basket of fruit and sweetmeats, a basket of sparkling lemonade, and a superb cake--all paid for by general subscriptions, and smuggled into the room by kind connivance of the servants.
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Upon this assurance the people came forward with subscriptions to build a second machine.
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