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legally valid prescription

phrase/ˈliːgəli ˈvælɪd prɪˈskrɪpʃən/

B1CEFR level
25/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister

A prescription that meets all the statutory requirements for particulars such as the prescriber's signature, date, and patient details.

I couldn't dispense it because the script wasn't a legally valid prescription without the prescriber's signature.

Topic: Pharmacy practice in Medical English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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