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Any of several similar lipophilic amines used as tranquilizers or sedatives or hypnotics or muscle relaxants
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benzodiazepine
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Benzodiazepines ( BZD , BZs ), sometimes called " benzos ", are a class of psychoactive drugs whose core chemical structure is the fusion of a benzene ring and a diazepine ring. The first such drug, chlordiazepoxide (Librium), was discovered accidentally ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1934, from benzo- , word-forming element used in chemistry to indicate presence of a benzene ring fused with another ring, + di + azo- + epine , a suffix denoting a seven-membered ring, from (h)ep(ta) (see seven ).
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n. any of several similar lipophilic amines used as tranquilizers or sedatives or hypnotics or muscle relaxants; chronic use can lead to dependency
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context pharmaceutical drug English) Any of a class of psychoactive drugs, structured upon diazepine, used in the treatment of anxiety, insomnia and other related disorders.
Usage examples of benzodiazepine.
Each bottle arrives with a piece of paper stating that the urine contains no detectable amounts of amphetamines, barbiturates, methadone, opiates, metabolized cocaine, benzodiazepine or THC, the active ingredient in marijuana.
For the girls left next to roadways, an overdose of benzodiazepine, the prescription drug Ativan.
Since benzodiazepines take a long time to accumulate and dissipate in the body, this was damn clever.
The bad side: Grapefruit juice increases the effective dose and the side effects of other drugs like calcium channel blockers, benzodiazepines, amiodarone, and Zoloft.
But they had come up with two positive results—one for benzodiazepines (tranquilizers) and one for THC (marijuana).
The minor benzodiazepines smoothed his anxieties, the Xanax and Librium and Clonopin, Tranxene and Valium, Dalmane and Paxipam, Ativan and Serax.