prescription drug

medication legally requiring a medical prescription before it can be dispensed
Organization legal_status_of_medicine Q1643563
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prescription drug

Summary

prescription drug is a legal status of medicine[1]. It draws 698 Wikipedia views per month (legal_status_of_medicine category, ranking #1 of 2).[2]

Key Facts

  • prescription drug's instance of is recorded as legal status of medicine[3].
  • prescription drug's instance of is recorded as drug class[4].
  • prescription drug's instance of is recorded as regulatory class of chemical substances[5].
  • prescription drug's subclass of is recorded as medication[6].
  • prescription drug's Commons category is recorded as Prescription drugs[7].
  • prescription drug's opposite of is recorded as over-the-counter drug[8].
  • prescription drug's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D055553[9].
  • prescription drug's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01_7r6[10].
  • prescription drug's MeSH tree code is recorded as D26.670[11].
  • prescription drug's BBC Things ID is recorded as fdc37adb-c628-4e8c-8e1c-0ca7db0897f8[12].
  • prescription drug's uses is recorded as medical prescription[13].
  • prescription drug's UMLS CUI is recorded as C0304227[14].
  • prescription drug's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as prescription-drugs[15].
  • prescription drug's UK Parliament thesaurus ID is recorded as 92545[16].
  • prescription drug's Interlingual Index ID is recorded as i57647[17].
  • prescription drug's IPTC NewsCode is recorded as mediatopic/20000468[18].
  • prescription drug's BBC News topic ID is recorded as cdwjd08v8wpt[19].
  • prescription drug's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2778858636[20].
  • prescription drug's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2908994439[21].
  • prescription drug's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2910326228[22].
  • prescription drug's Analysis & Policy Observatory term ID is recorded as 61016[23].
  • prescription drug's KBpedia ID is recorded as PrescriptionDrug[24].
  • prescription drug's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 03745652-n[25].
  • prescription drug's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 03927111-n[26].
  • prescription drug's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 04357425-n[27].

Why It Matters

prescription drug draws 698 Wikipedia views per month (legal_status_of_medicine category, ranking #1 of 2).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 26 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . UMLS 2023. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . KBpedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . GF WordNet. wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . GF WordNet. wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . GF WordNet. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_prescription-drug_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{prescription drug}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/prescription-drug}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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