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Medical Term

benzodiazepines

also: benzodiazepine

a group of drugs that act as tranquillizers (e.g. diazepam), hypnotics (flurazepam) and anticonvulsants, depending on the duration of action.

Source: mediLexicon corpus · slug benzodiazepines