Exam traps: X vs Y9 min read
Mycin vs micin: one letter, two organisms
The endings mark the organism that produced the antibiotic, not how it works. Why gentamicin and erythromycin are spelled differently and share nothing else.
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Drug suffixes in pharmacology: what stems tell you
Stems are assigned by mechanism, so -olol, -pril and -sartan predict the target before you memorise anything. How the system works and exactly where it stops.