misprescribe

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ prescribe.

Verb

misprescribe (third-person singular simple present misprescribes, present participle misprescribing, simple past and past participle misprescribed)

1. To prescribe (a medicine) erroneously.
   • 1981, The United States Patents Quarterly - Volume 209, page 74:

     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.

   • 2008 March 17, Janet Maslin, “The Case for Another Drug War, Against Pharmaceutical Marketers’ Dirty Tactics”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Disagreeing with Iowa’s nosologist, Ms. Petersen says the lethal consequences of overprescribed or misprescribed drugs are too readily accepted as “natural” death.

Related terms

• misprescription