Rx Definition

ärĕks
noun
A prescription for medicine or a medical appliance.
American Heritage Medicine
A remedy, cure, or the like suggested for any disorder or problem.
Webster's New World
symbol

Prescription.

Webster's New World

Origin of Rx

  • Alteration of ℞ symbol used in prescriptions abbreviation of Latin recipe sing. imperative of recipere to take receive

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • altered < ℞, conventional symbol for L recipe: see recipe

    From Webster's New World College Dictionary, 5th Edition

Rx Sentence Examples

  • In 1899 it was little over 217,000 Rx, the period of lowest intermediate depression being in 1897.

  • If (f,4) 1 be not a perfect square, and rx, s x be its linear factors, it is possible to express f and 4, in the canonical forms Xi(rx)2+X2(sx)2, 111(rx)2+1.2 (sx) 2 respectively.

  • Let s be the perpendicular from 0, the join of C and T on the direction of S; t the perpendicular from A, the join of C and S on the direction of T; and c the perpendicular from B, the join of S and T on the direction of C. Taking moments about 0, Rx - W 1 (x+a) - W 2 (x+2a) =Ss; taking moments about A, R3a-W 1 2a-W 2 a =Tt; and taking moments about B, Rea-W I a = Cc.

  • Another great canal scheme for the Punjab proposed to take off from the right bank of the Sutlej, and to irrigate about 600,000 acres in the Montgomery and Multan districts, at a cost of Rx.

  • It irrigated, however, in1896-1897an area of 87,306 acres, raising crops valued at Rx.

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