RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Compound names for drugs
JF Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin
JO Drug Ther Bull
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP 9
OP 10
DO 10.1136/dtb.8.3.9
VO 8
IS 3
YR 1970
UL http://dtb.bmj.com/content/8/3/9.abstract
AB As the number of presentations of drugs, both alone and in combination increases it becomes more difficult to provide suitable names. Some names are double-barrelled whilst others have a number or letter prefix or suffix. Such prefixes or suffixes vary greatly in their origin and meaning, are not normally part of official drug names, and often confuse both doctors and pharmacists.