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midazolam

noun/mɪˈdæzəlæm/

C2CEFR level
95/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

A short-acting water-soluble benzodiazepine used for premedication, sedation and amnesia.

Intranasal midazolam was chosen to allay the anxious child before separation from the parents.

Topic: Anaesthesia in Medical English

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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