Aripiprazole

Abilify · Atypical antipsychotic

Generic
aripiprazole
Brand
Abilify
Class
Atypical antipsychotic
Say it
AR-i-PIP-ra-zole

What technicians need to know

Partial dopamine agonist

Commonly mispronounced

"uh-RIP-uh-prah-zole"

The -prazole pattern

Aripiprazole ends in -prazole, which marks a proton pump inhibitor (PPI) — used for stomach acid. Learning the suffix families turns roughly 200 separate drugs into about 20 patterns you can reason from. See all the families.

Other atypical antipsychotics

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