Barbital
//ˈbɑː.bɪt.əl// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The first commercially marketed barbiturate, used as a hypnotic drug until the mid-1950s. countable, uncountable
"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."
- 2 a barbiturate used as a hypnotic wordnet
Example
More examples"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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