Drug nomenclature is based entirely on the family of medications such as "cillin" for penicillin derivatives.

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While some drug names may have suffixes indicating their family or class of medications (such as "-pril" for ACE inhibitors or "-statin" for cholesterol-lowering drugs), drug nomenclature is much more complex and may include a variety of prefixes, roots, and other suffixes indicating a drug's chemical structure, mechanism of action, or other characteristics.

Drug Nomenclature Is Based Entirely on the Family of Medications