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prefix "hemi" mean half. example: hydrocortisone hemisuccinate in this the succinate (succinic acid) which consists two carboxylic acid groups, only one is attached to the 21 carbon of the hydrocortisone and other carboxylic acid group is free. so that it is called as hydrocortisone hemisuccinate

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