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Diazepam vs Nitrazepam - What's the difference?

diazepam | nitrazepam |

As nouns the difference between diazepam and nitrazepam

is that diazepam is a minor tranquillizer with sedative effects, taken to reduce anxiety while nitrazepam is a benzodiazepine drug with sedative, anxiolytic, amnestic, anticonvulsant and skeletal muscle relaxant properties.

diazepam

English

Noun

(wikipedia diazepam) (en noun)
  • (pharmaceutical drug) A minor tranquillizer with sedative effects, taken to reduce anxiety.
  • * 2001': The most effective anti-anxiety drugs (tranquillizers) are the benzodiazepines, epitomized by '''diazepam (Valium®). — Leslie Iversen, ''Drugs: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2001, p. 57)

    • nitrazepam

    English

    Noun

    (-) (wikipedia nitrazepam)
  • A benzodiazepine drug with sedative, anxiolytic, amnestic, anticonvulsant and skeletal muscle relaxant properties.