Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A white odorless barbiturate, C12H18N2O3, used in the form of its sodium salt as a sedative and hypnotic.

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  • noun pharmacology Quinalbarbitone.

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  • noun barbiturate that is a white odorless slightly bitter powder (trade name Seconal) used as a sodium salt for sedation and to treat convulsions

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[seco(ndary) + barbital.]

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From secondary + barbital.

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Examples

  • Eliminating prison rape is easy, cheap, and painless: dose all food and drink with generous amounts of Depo-Provera and secobarbital.

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  • Eliminating prison rape is easy, cheap, and painless: dose all food and drink with generous amounts of Depo-Provera and secobarbital.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » More on “Weight Classes” for Prison Inmates 2010

  • WECHT: They'll say, hey, you know, how could they have possibly have needed this much morphine or this much secobarbital?

    CNN Transcript Jan 16, 2006 2006

  • WECHT: And you say, hey, how could they have possibly have needed this much morphine or this much secobarbital?

    CNN Transcript Dec 2, 2005 2005

  • He carefully prepared doses of secobarbital sodium.

    Along Came a Spider Patterson, James, 1947- 1993

  • Then he was injected with secobarbital sodium, probably about two hours later.

    Along Came a Spider Patterson, James, 1947- 1993

  • The secobarbital would hit first, inducing unconsciousness, the strychnine would kill.

    The Big Nowhere Ellroy, James, 1948- 1988

  • January 4, George Wiltsie and Duane Lindenaur, secobarbital sedated, mutilated and killed.

    The Big Nowhere Ellroy, James, 1948- 1988

  • Goines was killed by a heroin overjolt, Wiltsie and Lindenaur were poisoned by a secobarbital/strychnine compound.

    The Big Nowhere Ellroy, James, 1948- 1988

  • I tested some powder in it and got a home compound — sodium secobarbital, one part, one part strychnine.

    The Big Nowhere Ellroy, James, 1948- 1988

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