Generic drug

Rarity: Rare

A topic known well beyond its field, found in many languages.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Invention

Domain

Science and technology

Knowledge cost

6

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

A generic drug is a pharmaceutical drug that contains the same chemical substance as a proprietary drug that was originally protected by chemical patents. Generic drugs are allowed for sale after the patents on the original drugs expire.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Generic drug”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.