2009年1月13日星期二

generic, clipping, generic drug

His son moved the business from chemicals to pharmaceuticals, creating Ratiopharm in 1974. He tapped a growing demand for what became known as “branded generics,” pharmaceuticals that were not patented but were marketed under a trusted name.

Teva, the world's largest maker of generic drugs, said Friday it would buy Barr Pharmaceuticals of New Jersey for about $7.5 billion in cash and stock. Early reports of such a deal sent shares of Barr soaring Thursday.

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clipping

(klĭp'ĭng) pronunciation

Something cut off or out, especially an item clipped from a newspaper or magazine.
See clipped form.

generic

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adjective
1 FORMAL shared by, typical of or relating to a whole group of similar things, rather than to any particular thing:
The new range of engines all had a generic problem with their fan blades.

2 MAINLY US describes a product that is not marked with the name of the company that produced it:
a generic drug
a drug sold or prescribed under the nonproprietary name of its active ingredients or under a generally descriptive name rather than under a brand or trade name. The name of the active ingredient is established by a government or international body, and is typically the U.S. Adopted Name, British Approved Name, or International Nonproprietary Name. Generic drugs must contain the same active ingredients that their brand name counterparts do and are tested to assure that they are therapeutically equivalent, but they may contain different inactive ingredients from those found in the brand name medications.
Wikipedia article "Generic drug".