[1865–70; ‹ F barbiturique ‹ G Barbitur(säure) barbituric acid (of obscure orig.) + -ique-ic]This word is first recorded in the period 1865–70. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: dunk, goulash, maverick, racism, tick-tack-toe-ic is a suffix forming adjectives from other parts of speech, occurring originally inGreek and Latin loanwords (metallic; poetic; archaic; public) and, on this model, used as an adjective-forming suffix with the particular senses“having some characteristics of” (opposed to the simple attributive use of the basenoun) (balletic; sophomoric); “in the style of” (Byronic; Miltonic); “pertaining to a family of peoples or languages” (Finnic; Semitic; Turkic)
Examples of 'barbituric' in a sentence
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After diazepam, one patient still had seizures, with unsuccessful administration of phenytoin and therefore barbituric coma was induced (thionembutal).
Melania Maria Ramos de Amorim, Luiz Carlos Santos, Ana Maria Feitosa Porto, LeilaKatz Dias Martins, Valdson Vieira 2000, 'Recorrência da Crise Convulsiva após Terapia Anticonvulsivante com Sulfato de Magnésioem Pacientes com Eclâmpsia Recurrence of Seizures after Anticonvulsant Therapy withMagnesium Sulfate in Patients with Eclampsia', Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetríciahttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-72032000000300007. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)