Posted by TheMeanReds on March 10, 2007, at 15:41:11
In reply to Re: pharmaceutical suffixes » med_empowered, posted by yxibow on March 10, 2007, at 2:10:13
Thanks or the links, I'm going to look up the 'pams'.....I think they're be alot?
> > I hear they sometimes use firms to name them. The "z" sound in xanax and zoloft is soothing; both of them are best sellers for anxiety (though, with drug reps and advertising on the case, I don't think the names matter so much). Prozac is supposed to sound energizing and modern. ADD-erall...well, that one's obvious. Ritalin--decidedly less so.
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> They use firms -- but as for the generic drug's actual name there is a bit of consistency in suffixes
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> -barb* (barbiturate)
> -cillin, -cycline, -oxacin, etc. (antibiotics)
> -oxetine (e.g. fluoxetine, paroxetine, duloxetine, certain antidepressants)
> -mab (monoclonal antiboties) e.g.
> -*vir* antivirals
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomenclature_of_monoclonal_antibodies
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> and the giant list at AMA
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> http://www.ama-assn.org/ama1/pub/upload/mm/365/usan_stem_list.pdf
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