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international nonproprietary name

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.38 in modern English

Syllables
in-ter-na-tion-al non-pro-pri-etary -name
IPA
40
Scrabble Score
31
Letters
9
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An official generic and nonproprietary name given to a pharmaceutical drug or an active ingredient, as designated by the World Health Organization (WHO).

Inflected Forms

international nonproprietary names (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

Australian Approved Name AAN BAN JAN USAN

Synonyms

INN

Questions

What does international nonproprietary name mean?
An official generic and nonproprietary name given to a pharmaceutical drug or an active ingredient, as designated by the World Health Organization (WHO).

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