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What (who) is BARBITURATE - definition
barbiturate
[b?:'b?tj?r?t, -re?t]
¦ noun
1. any of a class of sedative drugs derived from barbituric acid.
2. Chemistry a salt or ester of barbituric acid.
barbiturate
(barbiturates)
A barbiturate is a drug which people take to make them calm or to help them to sleep.
She was addicted to barbiturates.
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Barbiturate
A barbiturate; however, at least in the United States, the more commonly used colloquial pronunciation is .Vaux, Bert and Scott Golder.
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Barbiturate
A barbiturate; however, at least in the United States, the more commonly used colloquial pronunciation is .Vaux, Bert and Scott Golder.
Examples of use of BARBITURATE
1. After the anesthesiologists backed out, the state was given permission to kill Morales with a lethal dose of barbiturate.
2. They had planned to use a fatal dose of barbiturate – a sedative – instead of the three–drug cocktail.
3. In California earlier this year, an execution was postponed when no doctor or nurse would agree to administer a fatal dose of a barbiturate.
4. Harvey Holford, who was cradling his dead wife in his arms, was deeply unconscious from an overdose of the barbiturate Seconal.
5. The first is sodium thiopental, a barbiturate intended to render the inmate unconscious at the start of the procedure and to prevent pain and suffering.