Prescription vs. Magistral — What's the Difference?

The action of establishing a rule, law, or direction.

Of or relating to a magistrate; magisterial.

Something that is prescribed; a rule, law, or direction

Prepared as specified by a physician's prescription. Used of medicine.

A written order, especially by a physician, for the preparation and administration of a medicine or other treatment.

Principal; main

A prescribed medicine or other treatment

Pertaining to or befitting a master; authoritative.

An ophthalmologist's or optometrist's written instruction, as for the grinding of corrective lenses.

Sovereign (of a remedy); extremely effective.

(Law) The acquisition of an easement or of title to property by use or occupancy that exceeds the time allowed to another to recover it by statutory right.

(pharmacology) Formulated extemporaneously, or for a special case; opposed to officinal, and said of prescriptions and medicines.

A written order from an authorized medical practitioner for provision of a medicine or other treatment, such as (ophthalmology) the specific lenses needed for a pair of glasses.

(pharmaceutical drug) A sovereign medicine or remedy.

(medicine) The medicine or treatment provided by such an order.

(countable) A magistral line.

(figurative) Any plan of treatment or planned treatment.

Powdered copper pyrites used in the amalgamation of ores of silver, as at the Spanish mines of Mexico and South America.

(legal) enactment, the act of establishing a law, regulation, etc., particularly in writing; an instance of this.

Pertaining to a master; magisterial; authoritative; dogmatic.

(linguistics) The act of establishing or formalizing ideal norms for language use, as opposed to describing the actual norms of such use; an instance of this.

Commanded or prescribed by a magister, esp. by a doctor; hence, effectual; sovereign; as, a magistral sirup.

(legal) An established time period within which a right must be exercised and after which it is null and permanently unenforceable.

Formulated extemporaneously, or for a special case; - opposed to officinal, and said of prescriptions and medicines.

(legal) An established time period after which a person who has uninterruptedly, peacefully, and publicly used another's property acquires full ownership of it.

A sovereign medicine or remedy.

(obsolete) self-restraint, limiting of one's actions especially according to a moral code or social conventions.

A magistral line.

Only available with a physician or nurse practitioner's written prescription

Powdered copper pyrites used in the amalgamation of ores of silver, as at the Spanish mines of Mexico and South America.

The act of prescribing, directing, or dictating; direction; precept; also, that which is prescribed.

A direction of a remedy or of remedies for a disease, and the manner of using them; a medical recipe; also, a prescribed remedy.

A prescribing for title; the claim of title to a thing by virtue of immemorial use and enjoyment; the right or title acquired by possession had during the time and in the manner fixed by law.

Directions prescribed beforehand; the action of prescribing authoritative rules or directions;

A drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist;

Written instructions for an optician on the lenses for a given person

Written instructions from a physician or dentist to a druggist concerning the form and dosage of a drug to be issued to a given patient

Available only with a doctor's written prescription;