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Librium

American  
[lib-ree-uhm] / ˈlɪb ri əm /
Pharmacology, Trademark.
  1. a brand of chlordiazepoxide.


Librium British  
/ ˈlɪbrɪəm /

noun

  1. a brand of the drug chlordiazepoxide See also benzodiazepine

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Librium was introduced in 1960 and promptly outsold its predecessors, the barbiturates, because it had fewer side effects.

From New York Times Sep. 29, 2012

Marketing, essentially — which was first put into action with Librium, one of those evocative drug names that pharmaceutical companies invent.

From New York Times Sep. 29, 2012

The Roche chemist who had originally stumbled upon Librium, Leo Sternbach, went back to the lab and tweaked the compound.

From New York Times Sep. 29, 2012

Hoffmann-La Roche, for example, developed a tranquilizer with the generic name chlordiazepoxide, but sells it as Librium.

From Time Magazine Archive

Trade-named Librium by New Jersey's Roche Laboratories, it is technically methamino-diazepoxide, a synthetic chemical unrelated to previous ataractic drugs.

From Time Magazine Archive

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