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Common Drug Suffixes

CNS Neuromuscular Infectious Disease


Family Drug Example Family Drug Example
-chol Muscarinic agonist carbachol Cell wall inhibitor “Broad Imipenem
-penam
spectrum” Meropenem
-trop Atropine
Muscarinic blocker
scop- Scopolamine Ciprofloxacin
-floxacin Fluoroquinolone
-stigmine Achase inhibitor Neostigmine Levofloxacin

-curium Nondepolarizing Atracurium -conazole Ketoconazole


Antifungal
-curonium neuromuscular blocker
Mivacurium ‘’Azole’’ Fluconazole
Pancuronium

-ane Inhailed anasthetic Halothane Chloroquine


-quine Antimalarial
Primaquine
-caine Local anaesthetic Lidocaine
Acyclovir
Antiviral “ DNA polymerase
-pam Diapam -ovir Ganciclovir
Benzodiazepine inhibitors” treats herpes
-lam Lorazopam Valacyclovir

-tal Barbiturate Phenobarbital Neuraminidase inhibitor “


-ivir Zanamivir
treats influenza”
Typical antipsychotic Chlorpromazine
-zine Antiviral protease Indinavir
or antihistamine Thoridazine -avir
inhibitor “treats HIV/AIDS” Ritonavir
-apine Clozapine
Atypical antipsychotic
-idone Risperidone

COMT inhibitor for Tolcapone


-capone
parkinson's disease Entacapone

Cardiovascular GI
Family Drug Example Family Drug Example

-olol Beta blocker metoprolol -tidine H2 blocker Cimetidine

-alol Sotalol -prazole PPI Pantoprazole


Alpha-Beta blockers
-ilol cardviolol

Vascular Calcium -setron 5HT3 blocker ‘’Anti Emetic’’ Ondansetron


-dipine Nifidipine
channel blocker

Terazosin
-zosin Alpha -1 blocker
Doxazosin

-pril Ace inhibitor Lisinopril Oncology


-sartan ARB Losartan Family Drug Example
-darone Antiarrhythmic Amiodarone Vincristine
vin- Microtubule inhibitor
Vinblastine
Anti hyperlipidemic Hmg
-statin Rosuvastatin -rubicin Cancer drug Doxorubicin
coa reductase inhibitor
-mab Monoclonal antibody drug Rituximab
Carbonic anhydrase
-zolamide Acetazolamide
inhibitor -tinib Tyrosine kinase inhibitor Imatinib
-semide Loop diuretic Furosemide

Low molecular weight


-parin Enoxaparin
heparin

-rudin Direct thrombin inhibitor Lepirudin

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