| Pharmaceutical companies are into the business of | | | | after the usage of drug. |
| discovering, manufacturing and sales of drugs. These | | | | The company is required to submit an option of at |
| drugs have to be named, for them to identify the | | | | least three names, which are put upon a taxonomy |
| product to its particular pharmaceutical company. | | | | chart before confirmation. This is done after analyzing |
| Companies decide names for drugs on various | | | | competition in pharmaceutical business sector. It is |
| factors such as functional or experiential clusters. The | | | | also checked that these names are not being |
| names are selected so as to attract attention and | | | | repeated for two different drugs. Taxonomy charts |
| score over other competitors. Some names top the | | | | help companies to differentiate from the commonly |
| charts due to their uniqueness and the fact that they | | | | used names from the separate ones in drug market. |
| mean nothing yet captivates public attention. | | | | These names are also regulated by FDA standards. |
| The pharmaceutical companies try and prove mass | | | | Brand names that catch public eye are very high in |
| acceptance by giving names to drugs, which relate to | | | | value when on sale. Chemical names of drugs also |
| the general people in some way or the other. For | | | | can be registered as brand names. During the clinical |
| example, names ending with the letters "gen" show | | | | testing of the drug the company simultaneously |
| that they are caring towards the public and these | | | | works at developing brand names according to the |
| drugs are obtained by working with nature and not | | | | specified guidelines. |
| against it. Functional names are given to drugs | | | | After deciding upon the name the same has to be |
| according to the description of what the drug does. | | | | submitted to the Food and Drug administration office. |
| Invented names are those that are invented or | | | | Therein the FDA authorities strike out the prohibited |
| derived from some other languages. Experiential | | | | prefix and stems included in the name. |
| names highlight the probable experience of the user | | | | |