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Who thinks up the odd and seemingly non-scientific names of Medicines? Example, I take Celebrex which is called "Celecoxib". A pain reliever is called "Naproxin". How about "Miconazole" for fungus? Or "Dantrolene" for a muscle relaxer? These names are not IUPAC chemical names. Who assigns the names? The companies who developed them? Some ad agency w/o any chemical knowledge? "Ibuprophen" seems to be some kind of contraction of chemical words.... Thank you.
Re: Odd Names Given to Medicines
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