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as a result, consumers may not realize that the term is a brand name rather than a medical eponym or generic term. Similarly, a doctor may prescribe a specific brand of a now-generic drug, and the pharmacy may replace it with the generic (such as generic risperidone for Risperdal).

In pharmaceuticals

Pharmaceutical trade names are somewhat protected from genericization due to the modern practice of assigning nonproprietary names

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