barbital en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈbɑɹ.bəˌtɔl/ (General-American)
- /ˈbɑː.bɪt.əl/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) The first commercially marketed barbiturate, used as a hypnotic drug until the mid-1950s.
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.
1921, Eden Phillpotts, chapter VIII, in The Grey Room:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| barbitals | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
metharbital · amobarbital · thiobarbital · tetrabarbital · phenobarbital · barbitalism · probarbital · secbutabarbital · pentobarbital
Synonyms
barbitone · veronal · diethylbarbituric acid · diethylmalonyl urea