underprescribe
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underprescribe (third-person singular simple present underprescribes, present participle underprescribing, simple past and past participle underprescribed)
- (transitive) To prescribe (a drug) less frequently than appropriate (as operationally defined, for example, by absence of prescription despite an approved indication and without any documented rationale for the overriding medical opinion).
- Antonym: overprescribe