barbituraten.
/bɑːˈbɪtjʊərət//bɑːˈbɪtʃərət//bɑːˈbɪtjʊəreɪt//bɑːbɪˈtjʊərət/ Chemistry.
A salt of barbituric acid; one of the group of hypnotic and sedative substances derived from barbituric acid. Also attributive or as adj.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > sedatives, antispasmodics, etc. > [noun] > sedative or hypnotic drugs
barbituric acid1866
adalin1911
allonal1921
Soneryl1923
barbiturate1928
sodium Amytal1929
allobarbitone1934
amylobarbitone sodium1945
Tuinal1949
amobarbital1950
quinalbarbitone1951
barb1955
ethchlorvynol1955
thalidomide1958
methaqualone1961
Quaalude1966
non-barbiturate1974
1928 Biol. Abstr. 2 17323 (title) Anesthesia in the dog of allyl-isopropyl-diethylamine barbiturate.
1930 Lancet 1 Mar. 473/2 G. Link, who has used isoamylethyl barbiturate in goitre surgery.
1930 Lancet 15 Nov. 1086/1 (title) The Barbiturates in Labour Cases.
1931 Lancet 14 Mar. 586/1 A symposium on the Barbiturates in Anæsthesia was opened by Dr. M. Nierenstein, who described in detail the chemistry of barbituric acid and its derivatives.
1955 Sci. News Let. 9 July 19/2 The barbiturate family of sleeping medicines.
1957 N.Z. Listener 26 July 15/3 Some of you must already be addicts to barbiturates... Ultimately not only physical but moral health deteriorates if you become a barbiturate habitue.
1963 Times 21 Dec. 6/2 The pathologist's view was that the overdose of barbiturate she had taken would have proved fatal.
1967 Spectator 7 July 10/1 As regards addiction, it is now definitely established that people can become dependent on barbiturates.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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