prescription vs medicinal drug

medicinal drug vs prescription

prescription and medicinal drug both are nouns.

prescription is an adjective but medicinal drug is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
prescription	Yes	Yes	No	No
medicinal drug	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, medicinal drug is a hypernym of prescription; that is, medicinal drug is a word with a broader meaning than prescription:

prescription: a drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist
medicinal drug: (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease

Other hypernyms of prescription include medicament, medication, medicine.

prescription (noun)	medicinal drug (noun)
a drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist	(medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease
directions prescribed beforehand; the action of prescribing authoritative rules or directions
written instructions from a physician or dentist to a druggist concerning the form and dosage of a drug to be issued to a given patient
written instructions for an optician on the lenses for a given person

prescription (adjective)	medicinal drug (adjective)
available only with a doctor's written prescription

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