barbital

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑː.bɪt.əl/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑɹ.bəˌtɔl/

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.

Derived terms

• amobarbital
• barbitalism
• metharbital
• pentobarbital
• phenobarbital
• probarbital
• secbutabarbital
• tetrabarbital
• thiobarbital

 

Further reading

• barbital on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Noun

barbital m (plural barbitals)

1. barbital