barbiturate
IPA: bɑrbˈɪtʃɝʌt
noun
- (organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of barbituric acid.
- (pharmacology) Any of derivatives of barbituric acid that act as depressants of the central nervous system and are used as sedatives or hypnotics.
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Examples of "barbiturate" in Sentences
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- Not to be confused with the barbiturate Amytal.
- Kashfi was an abuser of barbiturates and alcohol.
- Barbiturates are cross tolerant with benzodiazepines.
- There is no specific antidote for barbiturate poisoning.
- A diagnosis is verified by a benzodiazepine or barbiturate test.
- Butalbital is a physically and psychologically addictive barbiturate.
- Barbiturates exert an anxiolytic effect linked to the sedation they cause.
- Garland was suicidal on several occasions, but the cause of her death was a legal barbiturate overdose.
- Pentobarbital is a barbiturate sold under the name Nembutal that Lundbeck markets as an epilepsy treatment.
- So why the fascination with a life that, for all the diversions through tinsel town, stretched from miserable foster homes to barbiturate overdose?
- The drug at issue is thiopental sodium, a barbiturate used by states to render death-row inmates unconscious before other lethal drugs are used to complete an execution.
- First, a barbiturate is used to put prisoners to sleep; then, the muscle relaxant is given to stop them moving or screaming; finally, a third chemical, potassium, is injected to stop their heart.
- An anesthesiologist who testified in Bonnyman's court told Nashville Scene about what autopsies found in three inmates who did not receive enough of one of the execution drugs, sodium thiopental, a barbiturate that causes loss of consciousness.
- A year ago it suspended all production in America of sodium thiopental, a barbiturate widely used as the first stage of the lethal cocktail, after it became clear that it could face penalties in Italy, where it was also manufacturing the sedative.
- JONATHAN ARDEN, MEDICAL EXAMINER, FORENSIC PATHOLOGIST: The sequence of medications you described, first, is thiopental or sodium pentothal, which is an ultra-short-acting barbiturate which is supposed to sedate you, anesthetize you, knock you out.
- The doctors who signed the open letter, led by David Nicholl, a neurologist at City Hospital in Birmingham, want to see Hospira following the example of Lundbeck, the Danish manufacturer of a barbiturate called pentobarbital that has been also used in US executions.
- Never a man skilled at self-preservation, Birkeland began to drink too much whiskey, take large doses of Veronal (a highly addictive and damaging barbiturate prescribed for insomnia) and slide into a twilight of excessive work, paranoia and illnesswith no one to stop him.