becuz me and Sasha were starting to have too much fun alone in my Azilect thread, and becuz I guess I still get distracted now and then, here are some drug names of various kinds and what my barely conscious associations are with them: Just for fun.

don't you wonder how they come up with these names?
Azilect - vague associations with Ancient Mesoamerican knowledge, something that you choose or select to do, but that is also elected, meaning winning popular approval.....plus sounds kind of dry, and golden, and wise and transcendent.....
(see for Sasha's fabulous suggestions: http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/thread69129.html)

whereas its generic, rasagiline - rags, sagging, gasoline - a kind of Country girl gone wrong in some Dickensian back alley.

a few more:

Cymbalta - playing cymbals in some exalted orchestra, hosts of angelic presences, but what are they doing off the coast of Scandinavia?

Claritin - clarity, clear sounds, sonorous ringing bells, clear-mindedness

but its new clone, Pristique - kinda young, sexy female, demure, almost virginally clean, but underneath it she's your (or your his) sexy French mistress, but you'll never know her real name or where she comes from, a valuable charisma beneath the porcelain surface. But could almost be a lipgloss, too....

C'mon, this is fun. Some are kind of obvious (Viagra to make you like Niagra, of course, but

Ambien well, of I were in a soothing and friendly cocktail lounge, I might get pleasantly drowsy, too...

Mirapex - I can just cancel that gym membership overnight because suddenly I was blessed with a six-pack bod, thanks to....


Feel free to add some more. Here the experts weigh in.

http://www.igorinternational.com/pre...drug-names.php

http://www.igorinternational.com/pre...ding-drugs.php

http://www.igorinternational.com/pre...drug-names.php

Hah - Niagra, I was right!!!

Cialis in Wonderland

hahahahahahahahaaaaaa

This thread need a warning! I just spewed my tea on my monitor!

yes!! needs warning for sure! it made me laugh!

Girija

And then there are diseases for which meds have yet to be developed, e.g:
"Inordinate fondness for fashionable shoes": Obsessive-Compulsive Imeldamarcosis. Or "Inability to let a pun pass by": Idiopathic Quipacemia.

I'm sure the Aztecs had botanical remedies for all these ailments.

Jon

sleepless in Florida. This seems like a logical place to go.....

I'm going on a trip ..I need

fuel -gasoline and dopamine
equipped with requip
xanax for panax
azilect to protect
synthroid to avoid
amantadine and dance with

paula

Too funny!! And some great rhyming too!

Excerpts from What's in a Drug Name:

As drugs and biologics are being developed, marketers work behind the scenes searching for a unique brand name in a process that is estimated to cost up to $2.25 million.

Developers might look for anagrams (words made from transposed letters of another word, like Halcion), or palindromes (words spelled the same backward and forward).[10] More than likely, plosives will be employed. Certain letters (P, T, D, K, Q, and hard C) give the name a strong sound that causes it to explode forcefully from the mouth. Studies have shown these letters are the most effective for marketing purposes, which is why the most common first two-letter combination in drug names is pr.[10-12] In addition, drug names are peppered with fricatives -- letters like X and Z that sound fast.[10,12] (Does Ex-Lax sound fast to you?[12]) Marketers like the soft C, S, and L letters for lifestyle products.

Medications used to treat erectile dysfunction have attracted unprecedented attention, and their sponsors have gone to great lengths to find names that obliterate the stigma associated with this disorder.[9] Marketing literature applauds Pfizer's selection of Viagra (sildenafil citrate) for its suggestion of vitality and because it rhymes with Niagra, connoting force and endurance.[7] They hail its new competitor, Levitra (vardenafil hydrochloride), for its sound of European elegance (le from the French word for the, vitra suggesting life), and its aural similarity to libido.[12] (Its European name, Nuviva, was rejected by FDA.)

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