barbital

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Noun

barbital (countable and uncountable, plural barbitals)

  1. The first commercially marketed barbiturate, used as a hypnotic drug until the mid-1950s.
    Synonyms: barbitone, diethylbarbituric acid, diethylmalonyl urea, veronal
    • 1921, Eden Phillpotts, chapter VIII, in The Grey Room:
      A woman, who had taken morphine and barbital, was found apparently dead after a night's exposure in some lonely spot. There were no reflexes, no pulse, no respiration or heart-beat. Yet she was alive—existing without oxygen—an impossibility as we had always supposed.

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Noun

barbital m (plural barbitals)

  1. barbital
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