multi-source medicine
- Guideline or reference source
- WHO Glossary
- Definition
- A medicine that can be purchased under any of several trademarks from different manufacturers or distributors. When the patent of a medicine expires, a single-source medicine becomes multi-source. Multi-source medicines are intended to be pharmaceutically equivalent or pharmaceutical alternatives that are bioequivalent and hence are therapeutically equivalent and interchangeable.
- Related Term
- generic medicinal product
- single-source medicine
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