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The word prescription comes from the Latin word praescriptus.. It has the prefix pre which means before and script which means writing; so, a prescription has to be written before a drug is compounded. Historically, prescriptions were written in Latin and are still written that way today. There are two major reasons: 1  Latin is more concise than other languages.  It makes prescriptions able to be written and filled worldwide, since physicians all over the world know the Latin names for drugs and the instructions needed.
List of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions. This is a list of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions, including hospital orders (the patient-directed part of which is referred to as sig codes). This list does not include abbreviations for pharmaceuticals or drug name suffixes such as CD, CR, ER, XT (See Time release technology Â§ List of abbreviations for those). Capitalization and the use of periods are a matter of style. In the list, abbreviations in English are capitalized whereas those in Latin are not. These abbreviations can be verified in reference works, both recent and older. Some of those works (such as Wyeth 1901) are so comprehensive that their entire content cannot be reproduced here.