barbital
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbɑː.bɪt.əl/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbɑɹ.bəˌtɔl/
Noun[edit]
barbital (countable and uncountable, plural barbitals)
- 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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French[edit]
Noun[edit]
barbital m (plural barbitals)