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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

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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

The EEC was curious as to why there were wide country-to-country variances in prices for livestock vitamins and two popular Roche tranquilizers, Librium and Valium.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sternbach collected 241 patents in his career; he also developed the tranquilizer Librium, the sleeping pill Mogadon, Klonopin for epileptic seizures and Arfonad to control bleeding during surgery.

From Time Magazine Archive

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