generic equivalent

collocation in English

meaningsofgenericandequivalent

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generic
adjective
uk
/dʒəˈner.ɪk/us
/dʒəˈner.ɪk/
formal
shared by, typical of, or relating to a whole group of similar things, rather than to any ...
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equivalent
noun[C usually singular]
uk
/ɪˈkwɪv.əl.ənt/us
/ɪˈkwɪv.əl.ənt/
something that has the same amount, value, purpose, qualities, etc. as ...
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(Definition ofgenericandequivalentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Where agenericequivalentis available hospital pharmacists and doctors carefully evaluate its suitability for use instead of the brand name product.
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Any adverse reaction to a product would normally be expected in both a branded product and agenericequivalent.
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It would in fact mean that a pharmacist on receiving a prescription with a branded medicine prescribed could fill it with agenericequivalent.
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There are of course many branded drugs which have nogenericequivalent.
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Osmosin, now withdrawn, was a special sustained release formulation of indomethacin for which there was nogenericequivalent.
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It was worried about instances of a doctor prescribing a drug and never knowing what the pharmacist eventually dispensed to the patient as the cheapestgenericequivalent.
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Most modern drugs are available only in proprietary form, and some proprietaries are cheaper than their apparent generic equivalents.
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Statistical records of medicines administered to inmate patients to not enable identification of specific proprietary brands (such as valium) or their generic equivalents.
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These will not necessarily be "generic equivalents" to proprietary drugs but will be a range of alternative medicines which are both effective and cheap.
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Branded, in-patent medicines are considerably more expensive than their generic equivalents.
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Lastly, full advantage should be taken of generic equivalents to proprietary drugs where they exist and can meet patients' needs.
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This means that calculating the thousands of permutations of price differential between the various branded versions and their many generic equivalents could be done only at disproportionate cost.
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Even if compulsory and across the board, it could not save more than about £35 million a year, because comparatively few branded drugs actually have direct generic equivalents.
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He must be aware that, for example, through prescribing generic equivalents it is possible to bring downward pressure on expenditure without affecting the quality of patient care.
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While they no longer have canon rules, they can be used as their generic equivalents.
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While he, and his men, no longer have canon rules, they can be used as their generic equivalents.
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The firm produced antibiotics, such as penicillin and tetracycline, waiting for the expiration of patents on brand-name medications and then producing generic equivalents at lower prices.
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Bottomup, frame engineers typically create frames by unifying and parameterizing groups of similar program elements (of any granularity, from text snippets to subsystems) into generic equivalents.
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In this context, evergreening may be used by manufacturers of a particular drug to restrict or prevent competition from manufacturers of generic equivalents to that drug.
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There are of course many branded drugs which have nogenericequivalent.
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