trional

English

Noun

trional (uncountable)

1. (medicine) The anesthetic drug 2,2-bis(ethylsulfonyl)butane.
   • 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 7, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 123:

     'My wife always takes a sleeping draught when travelling by train. She took her usual dose of trional.'

See also

• sulfonal