Generic drug — A generic drug (generic drugs, short: generics) is a drug defined as a drug product that is comparable to brand/reference listed drug product in dosage form, strength, route of administration, quality and performance characteristics, and intended … Wikipedia
generic drug — noun when the patent protection for a brand name drug expires generic versions of the drug can be offered for sale if the FDA agrees generic drugs are usually cheaper than brand name drugs • Ant: ↑brand name drug • Hypernyms: ↑generic, ↑drug … Useful english dictionary
generic-drug law — n. A law allowing pharmacists to offer customers less expensive generic drugs when filling prescriptions for a brand name drug. Webster s New World Law Dictionary. Susan Ellis Wild. 2000 … Law dictionary
generic drug laws — n. Laws that allow pharmacists to substitute generic drugs for equivalent brand name drugs in order to save consumers money. The Essential Law Dictionary. Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. Amy Hackney Blackwell. 2008 … Law dictionary
generic drug laws — Laws which permit pharmacists to substitute generic drugs for brand name drugs under specified conditions. Most states have passed such laws. The purpose of these laws ostensibly is to make available to consumers less expensive generic drugs in… … Black's law dictionary
generic drug laws — Laws which permit pharmacists to substitute generic drugs for brand name drugs under specified conditions. Most states have passed such laws. The purpose of these laws ostensibly is to make available to consumers less expensive generic drugs in… … Black's law dictionary
Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act — Acronym Hatch Waxman amendments Citations Codification … Wikipedia
Generic — means pertaining or appropriate to large classes or groups as opposed to specific members of the group. It may refer to:* Generic mood, a grammatical mood used to make generalized statements like Snow is white * Generic antecedents, referents in… … Wikipedia
Generic — Ge*ner ic, Generical Ge*ner ic*al, a. [L. genus, generis, race, kind: cf. F. g[ e]n[ e]rique. See {Gender}.] [1913 Webster] 1. (Biol.) Pertaining to a genus or kind; relating to a genus, as distinct from a species, or from another genus; as, a… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Drug development — Drug research redirects here. For the journal, see Drug Research (journal). Drug development is a blanket term used to define the process of bringing a new drug to the market once a lead compound has been identified through the process of drug… … Wikipedia