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What is a barbiturate?

What is a barbiturate? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of barbituric acid.
  2. (pharmacology) Any of derivatives of barbituric acid that act as depressants of the central nervous system and are used as sedatives or hypnotics.
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Oklahoma turned to pentobarbital, another barbiturate, but this drug also became hard to locate.
The third measure, polydrug use, is the sum of hallucinogen, amphetamine, barbiturate, cocaine, and heroin use.
If Nozinan is administered with a barbiturate or narcotic, the doses of the latter must be reduced by at least one-half.
Convulsion should be controlled by careful administration of diazepam or short-acting barbiturate, repeated as necessary.
In the early 1940s, it became customary to anaesthetize patients with barbiturate injections.
The withdrawal process must be carefully monitored because barbiturate or alcohol detoxification can be life-threatening.

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