eli5: Why do medicines have such weird names?

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They’re all called things like Zyrtec or Imbruvica. What is the convention that’s used to create these names, and why can’t they just be called something normal, like … I dunno, ‘Headache-Be-Gone’ ?

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Because normal people would call them after the way they fix or the illness, I thought Mycoxafloppin would be far better than viagra.

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