benzodiazepine
B2CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
A class of drug that enhances GABA activity to produce sedative, anxiolytic and anticonvulsant effects.
She was cautious about prescribing a benzodiazepine to a patient with a history of substance misuse.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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