The World Health Organization's ATC classification organizes medical drugs based on therapeutic properties, chemical composition, and anatomy. It helps make essential medicines readily available globally and is widely used in the pharmaceutical industry.
Level | Code | Title | |
---|---|---|---|
1 | N | Nervous system | |
2 | N01 | Anesthetics | |
3 | N01B | Anesthetics, local | |
4 | N01BX | Other local anesthetics | |
5 | N01BX01 | Ethyl chloride |
Active Ingredient | Description | |
---|---|---|
Chloroethane |
Chloroethane, commonly known by its old name ethyl chloride, is a chemical compound with chemical formula CH3CH2Cl, once widely used in producing tetraethyllead, a gasoline additive. |