Meaning of Barbital | Babel Free

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The first commercially marketed barbiturate, used as a hypnotic drug until the mid-1950s.

countable, uncountable

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“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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