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Meaning of misprescribe | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C1

Definitions

To prescribe (a medicine) erroneously.

Examples

“Even in a case where the doctor and the pharmacist somehow misprescribed and misdispensed, it seems obvious that the consumer would see that the product was for weight loss and would not accept it in place of an allergy relief medication.”
“Disagreeing with Iowa’s nosologist, Ms. Petersen says the lethal consequences of overprescribed or misprescribed drugs are too readily accepted as “natural” death.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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