Librium en · NOUN
Etymology
Marketing coinage.
Meanings
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(qualifier:trademark, uncountable) The drug chlordiazepoxide.
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.
1979, Harold M. Silverman, Gilbert I. Simon, The Pill Book […] , 1st edition, New York: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 385:Named diazepam and marketed as Valium, this drug is about five times as potent as Librium.
2003, Samuel H. Barondes, chapter 4, in Better than Prozac, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 53: