Usually means: Issues formal instructions for treatment.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. prescribes: Merriam-Webster
  2. prescribes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. prescribes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Prescribes, prescribes: Wordnik
  5. prescribes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. prescribes: Wiktionary
  7. prescribes: Dictionary.com
  8. prescribes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Prescribes: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. prescribes: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. prescribes: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. prescribes: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. prescribes: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. prescribes: Medical dictionary

(Note: See prescribe as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (prescribe)

verb:  (medicine) To order (a drug or medical device) for use by a particular patient (under licensed authority).
verb:  To specify by writing as a required procedure or ritual; to lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or rule of action.
verb:  (law) To develop or assert a right; to make a claim (by prescription).
verb:  (law) To become invalidated or unenforceable by prescription, to lapse
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