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24 HR metronidazole 750 MG Extended Release Oral Tablet — RxCUI 636559

RxNorm drug concept · Semantic clinical drug
RxCUI 636559 Semantic clinical drug · SCD ● Current RxNorm concept 1 FDA product 4 package NDCs Snapshot Jul 14, 2026

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What you’re looking at: the standardized identity of one medicine, as the U.S. drug-data system sees it. Below — every FDA-listed product, package code, price benchmark, and billing code that maps to it.

🗂️ Key Facts

RxCUI636559
Official name24 HR metronidazole 750 MG Extended Release Oral Tablet
Concept typeSemantic clinical drug (SCD)
RxNorm statusCurrent RxNorm concept
Also known asmetroNIDAZOLE 750 MG 24HR Extended Release Oral Tablet
FDA products mapped1
Package NDCs mapped4
RxNorm release07/06/2026
Snapshot dataJul 14, 2026

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🕸️ Concept Web — How 24 HR metronidazole 750 MG Extended Release Oral... Connects

One RxCUI never lives alone. Follow the path from the raw ingredient down to the exact strength-and-form concepts FDA products carry — every stop is a real RxNorm concept with its own identifier. Hover or focus any chip for what it means.
This page's concept 24 HR metronidazole 750 MG Extended Release Oral Tablet RxCUI 636559

Every web starts here: one RxCUI, one fixed meaning in the RxNorm vocabulary.

  1. Ingredients 1

    The active substance itself — no strength, form, or brand attached yet.

    • Metronidazole 6922
  2. Dose forms 6

    The ingredient poured into a form — tablet, solution, cream — still without one fixed strength.

    • Metronidazole Extended Release Oral Tablet 372898
    • Metronidazole Oral Product 1164083
    • Metronidazole Pill 1164084
    • Extended Release Oral Tablet 316945
    • Oral Product 1151131
    • Pill 1151133
  3. Clinical & branded drugs 1

    Ingredient + strength + dose form. These are the concepts real FDA products actually carry.

    • Metronidazole 750 MG 330379

Showing up to 8 concepts per family — 8 of 8 stored related concepts drawn.
These are official RxNorm vocabulary relationships — how concepts name and organize the same medicine. They do not establish therapeutic equivalence or substitutability: two concepts appearing in one web is never a statement that products can be swapped.

🔀 Generic ⇄ Brand Crosswalk

The same medicine has an unbranded (generic) identity and one or more brand-name identities — each with its own RxCUI. This is a naming relationship in RxNorm, not a statement that any two products are substitutable.

Generic (Clinical) Concepts

  • Metronidazole 750 MG SCDC · 330379
  • Metronidazole Extended Release Oral Tablet SCDF · 372898
  • Metronidazole Oral Product SCDG · 1164083
  • Metronidazole Pill SCDG · 1164084

📦 FDA Products & Package NDCs

1 product · 4 package NDCs
4 package NDCs map to RxCUI 636559 in the current snapshot — up to 50 per page. Each linked NDC opens its full package page.
Package NDC Package Brand / generic name Labeler Marketing start
46708-0021-30 30 TABLET, FILM COATED, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (46708-... Metronidazole Alembic Pharmaceuticals Limited 2010-05-07
46708-0021-31 100 TABLET, FILM COATED, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (46708... Metronidazole Alembic Pharmaceuticals Limited 2010-05-07
46708-0021-50 50 TABLET, FILM COATED, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (46708-... Metronidazole Alembic Pharmaceuticals Limited 2010-05-07
46708-0021-71 500 TABLET, FILM COATED, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (46708... Metronidazole Alembic Pharmaceuticals Limited 2010-05-07
Observed labelers: Alembic Pharmaceuticals Limited (4) — this is the FDA-listed mapping footprint, not sales, inventory, availability, or market share.

🗃️ Sources & Limits

Atlas generation902fddb9-e9c1-4004-bf4c-dba4d51037c7
openFDA export observedJul 14, 2026
RxNorm release07/06/2026
Methodology2026-07-full-catalog-v1
  • A shared RxCUI does not prove interchangeability. Products mapped to the same concept are not thereby equivalent or substitutable — equivalence is a separate, product-level determination.
  • Listing here does not establish approval or coverage. Appearing in this snapshot is a data observation, not an FDA approval status or a payer coverage decision.
  • Missing data never means zero. A silent dataset (no price, no billing code, no utilization) means no observation — not that the real-world value is zero.
  • Counts describe the mapping footprint. Product, package, and labeler counts are the FDA-listed mapping footprint in this snapshot — not sales, inventory, availability, or market share.
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