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Librium
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English
Etymology
Marketing coinage.
Noun
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en trademark pharmaceutical drug The drug chlordiazepoxide.
en Valium
1979 385 These are the minor tranquilizers such as Diazepam (Valium), Chlordiazepoxide (Librium), Oxazepam (Serax), and related benzodiazepines, and Meprobamate, which are used to treat anxiety neurosis.
en Samuel H. Barondes Better than Prozac 2003 Oxford University Press 4 53 https://archive.org/details/betterthanprozac00baro/page/53/mode/1up 978-0-19-803450-6 Named diazepam and marketed as Valium, this drug is about five times as potent as Librium.