Trusted Medicine - Researching Drug Names
Currently, the medicine used by thousands of all kinds of drug names. Suffice large amount of drugs that
are considered relatively safe, patients are alone, without a prescriptions. Many want to know what
the name of a medicine means. It turns out that in the name medicines can be found word elements that
give information about its pharmacological nature. Derivational element in the names of drugs are often
chemical, and other anatomical terms, mostly Latin and Greek origin.
For example and its derivational element "alg" (from the Greek word "algos" - the pain) is present in
the names of many pain medicines.
The group funds include pain medications such as analgin, pentalgin, sedalgin, baralgin.
In the names of medicines, to treat skin diseases, often attends Greek root "dermis" (skin): dermatol,
dermazole.
Greek word "gaster" (stomach) was the basis for the names of drugs used in treating stomach ailments:
gastropharm, gastrozepin.
Preparations for diabetics sometimes you can see by the presence in their titles derivational element
"gli" (from the Greek word "glicis" - sweet): glibenklamid, glyformin.
Derivational element "formin" indicates the drugs belonging to the group of drugs lowering blood sugar:
buformin, diformin.
In some antipyretic drug names meets Greek word "pir" (fire, fever), for example: aspirin,
antipirin, pirbuterol.
Based on the Latin root of "cor" (heart) formed the names of many drugs to treat cardiovascular
disease: zocor, corvalol, cordarone.
When high blood pressure and arrhythmia often designate blockers group propranolol: atenolol, practolol,
techniques prolol. Overall in their titles - the existence of a standard element of "olol".
If drugs are present in the title Derivational element "cillin" that occurred from the Latin names
Penicillium (as a result of their livelihoods formed various types of penicillin), this drug is a
penicillin antibiotic group: meticillin, ampicillin, bicillin.
The availability of the drug element in the title of "cyclin" (from the Greek word "ciclos" - circle, cycle)
points to his membership of a tetracycline antibiotic group (the molecule is a condensed four-cycle):
doxycycline, metacycline.
When choosing any medication should also bear in mind that any medication, except for official
chemical (main) names often has another, or even a few brand names. Brand names
are usually shorter and easier to remember. For example, acetylsalicylic acid better known
under the brand name "aspirin".
Large amount of drugs that are considered relatively safe, patients take alone,
without a doctor's prescriptions. Because of what people often make mistakes
and misspellings in the popular drug names.
We have also listed the most common misspellings of popular drug names below.
Most common misspellings of popular drug names
