Half of the prescription medications that doctors give are like double-barrelled and 10-syllables. Is there a specific reason for this? Is it a chemistry thing, or a safety thing so miscommunication is less likely?
In: Chemistry
There are very specific rules for naming medications. And there are generic names and names the drug is marketed (sold) under. Both of those have to not be able to be confused with other words in multiple languages, so you basically end up with nonsense words.
For the generic names, they also have to follow a set of rules that allows someone to know what the “class” of drug is (antivirals end in “vir” for example, antibodies end in “mab”.)
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