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Medical Definition of Nonproprietary name
1. A short name (often called a generic name) of a chemical, drug, or other substance that is not subject to trademark (proprietary) rights but is, in contrast to a trivial name, recognised or recommended by government agencies (e.g., Federal Food and Drug Administration) and by quasi-official organizations (e.g., U.S. Adopted Names Council) for general public use. Like a proprietary name, it is almost always a coined designation derived without using set criteria. Compare: trivial name, proprietary name, semisystematic name, systematic name. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonproprietary Name
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