The difference between Medicine and Prescription

Medicine as a noun:

A substance which specifically promotes healing when ingested or consumed in some way.

Medicine as a noun:

A treatment or cure.

Medicine as a noun:

The study of the cause, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease or illness.

Medicine as a noun:

The profession of physicians, surgeons and related specialisms; those who practice medicine.

Medicine as a noun:

Ritual Native American magic used by a medicine man to promote a desired outcome in healing, hunting, warfare etc.

Medicine as a noun:

Among the Native Americans, any object supposed to give control over natural or magical forces, to act as a protective charm, or to cause healing.

Medicine as a noun (obsolete):

black magic, superstition.

Medicine as a noun (obsolete):

A philter or love potion.

Medicine as a noun (obsolete):

A physician.

Medicine as a noun (slang):

recreational drugs, especially alcoholic drinks

Medicine as a verb (rare, obsolete):

To treat with medicine.

Prescription as a noun (legal):

The act of prescribing a rule, law, etc.. Also called extinctive prescription or liberative prescription. A time period within which a right must be exercised, otherwise it will be extinguished. Also called acquisitive prescription. A time period after which a person who has, in the role of an owner, uninterruptedly, peacefully, and publicly possessed another's property acquires the property. The described process is known as acquisition by prescription and adverse possession.

Prescription as a noun (medicine, pharmacy):

A written order, as by a physician or nurse practitioner, for the administration of a medicine or other intervention. See also scrip.

Prescription as a noun (medicine):

The prescription medicine or intervention so prescribed.

Prescription as a noun (ophthalmology):

The formal description of the lens geometry needed for spectacles, etc..

Prescription as a noun (linguistics):

The act or practice of laying down norms of language usage, as opposed to description, i.e. recording and describing actual usage.

Prescription as a noun (linguistics):

An instance of a prescriptive pronouncement.

Prescription as a noun:

A plan or procedure to obtain a given end result; a recipe.

Prescription as an adjective:

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