superscription
noun
- the act of superscribing
- something superscribed; esp., an address on a letter, etc.
- Pharmacy the Latin word recipe (meaning “take”) or its symbol, ℞, on a prescription
See superscription in American Heritage Dictionary 4
su·per·scrip·tion
noun- Something written above or outside something else.
- The act of superscribing.
- The part of a prescription that bears the Latin word recipe represented by the symbol ℞.
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