Prescription Muscle Relaxants
prescription |priˈskripSHən|
noun
1 an instruction written by a medical practitioner that authorizes a patient to be provided a medicine or treatment: he scribbled a prescription for tranquilizers | antidepressants available only by prescription | [ as modifier ] : prescription drugs.
• the action of prescribing a medicine or treatment: the unnecessary prescription of antibiotics.
• a medicine or remedy that is prescribed: I’ve got to pick up my prescription.
2 a recommendation that is authoritatively put forward: effective prescriptions for sustaining rural communities.
• the authoritative recommendation of an action or procedure: rather than prescription there would be guidance.
3 (also positive prescription )Law the establishment of a claim founded on the basis of a long or indefinite period of uninterrupted use or of long-standing custom.
ORIGIN late Middle English (as a legal term): via Old French from Latin praescriptio(n-), from the verb praescribere (see prescribe). Sense 1 dates from the late 16th cent.
Muscle Relaxants according to wiki:
A muscle relaxant is a drug which affects skeletal muscle function and decreases the muscle tone. It may be used to alleviate symptoms such as muscle spasms, pain, and hyperreflexia. The term “muscle relaxant” is used to refer to two major therapeutic groups: neuromuscular blockers and spasmolytics. Neuromuscular blockers act by interfering with transmission at the neuromuscular end plate and have no central nervous system (CNS) activity. They are often used during surgical procedures and in intensive care and emergency medicine to cause paralysis. Spasmolytics, also known as “centrally-acting” muscle relaxants, are used to alleviate musculoskeletal pain and spasms and to reduce spasticity in a variety of neurological conditions. While both neuromuscular blockers and spasmolytics are often grouped together as muscle relaxants, the term is commonly used to refer to spasmolytics only.