Atenolol

Tenormin · Cardioselective beta blocker

Generic
atenolol
Brand
Tenormin
Class
Cardioselective beta blocker
Say it
a-TEN-oh-lol

What technicians need to know

Taper

Commonly mispronounced

"AT-uh-no-lol"

The -olol pattern

Atenolol ends in -olol, which marks a beta blocker — used for blood pressure, rate control. Learning the suffix families turns roughly 200 separate drugs into about 20 patterns you can reason from. See all the families.

Other cardioselective beta blockers

nebivolol metoprolol tartrate metoprolol succinate

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