The term, meaning fear of reptiles, is an amalgam of Greek, not Latin. Herpeto = from herpeton, which means reptile, or more literally a creeping thing. In turn herpeton grew out of the verb herpein which meant to creep.
Basaglar is biologically similar to Sanofiâs basal insulin Lantus (insulin glargine), including the same protein sequence and a similar glucose-lowering effect. While the FDA does not call it a âbiosimilarâ drug for regulatory reasons, it can essentially be thought of as an alternative form of Lantus.
This is a so-called biosimilar, although it is not recognized as such in the United States; a basal insulin with the same amino-acid sequence as the familiar Lantus (insulin glargine), the blockbuster insulin developed by Sanofi for which the patent will expire soon, in 2015.