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What does paraldehyde mean?

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Noun
  1. (organic chemistry) A cyclic trimer of acetaldehyde once used as an antidepressant.
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His first wife Vivienne had been prescribed Hoffman's anodyne and paraldehyde to treat her nervous condition, two anesthetics that exude a strong scent of ether.
For this reason it is possible to determine the freezing point curves of acetaldehyde and paraldehyde.
A young woman had a fit, and all the paraldehyde and other Western intervention we tried would not stop it.
For the same reason the use of paraldehyde in such cases is quite inadmissable.
Starting in the one case with fused paraldehyde, and in the other case with acetaldehyde, the same freezing point, viz.
The inmate of Kirkdale Homes was believed to have drunk toxic paraldehyde while at Walton Hospital.

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