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As our knowledge of medicines increase, we will begin to see patterns of drug names related to their drug class, or medicine name suffixes. We can see some of these below in Table 1.4:

Suffix is a letter or a group of letters that goes at the end of a word.

Table 1.4 Medicine name suffixes.

Suffix	Medication family or class	Examples of drugs	Indications for use
mab	Monoclonal antibodies	Trastuzumab Pertvzumab Pembrolizumab	Breast cancer Breast cancer Melanoma
olol	b‐Blockers	Propranolol Bisoprolol Timolol Maleate	Hypertension Adjunct in heart failure Angina
sartan	Angiotensin receptor antagonists	Valsartan Telmisartan Irbesartan	Hypertension Hypertension Hypertension
pril	Angotensin‐converting Enzyme inhibitors	Lisinopril Ramipril Quinapril	Hypertension Hypertension Hypertension
cillin	Penicillin antibiotics	Ampicillin Amoxicillin Benzylpenicillin	Susceptible infections e.g. bronchitis Susceptible infections e.g. sinusitis Mild to moderate bacterial infections e.g. pneumonia
sone	Corticosteroids	Prednisone Dexamethasone Hydrocortisone	Rheumatoid arthritis Cerebral oedema Anaphylaxis