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Number of shares of equity interests issued or issuable to acquire entity.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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The cash outflow associated with the acquisition of business during the period. The cash portion only of the acquisition price.

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Certain Transactions - Business Transactions - Additional Information (Detail) - USD ($) shares in Millions, $ in Millions	Jan. 31, 2018	Oct. 03, 2016	Aug. 02, 2016	Mar. 03, 2016
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Cash consideration		$ 500	$ 33,400
Allergan plc [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Allergan one time payment to Teva	$ 703
Actavis [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Shares issued as consideration for the acquisition			100.3
Rimsa [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Cash consideration				$ 2,300