What Are All Of The Prefixes Before Medication Names On Prescriptions? (Teva, Ra!
Question: What Are All Of The Prefixes Before Medication Names On Prescriptions? (Teva, Ratio, Ran, etc)?
On prescription bottles I always see prefixes before the chemical's name. For example, my prescription to fluoxetine says "Ratio-Fluoxetine 10MG", my mom's prescription to venlaflaxine says "Teva-Venlaflaxine XR 150MG", my old prescription to risperidone said "Ran-Risperidone 0.5MG" etc.
What do they mean? Teva, Ratio, Ran, etc.
What do they mean? Teva, Ratio, Ran, etc.
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"Teva" is the name of a drug manufacturer.
"Ratio" doesn't make sense in the context you quoted. It's normally used to denote a numerical relationship between something, i.e. the ratio of Thursdays to non-Thursdays is 1:6.
"Ran" is probably short for "Ranbaxy", which is another drug manufacturer.