phenobarbital

phenobarbital
/fee'noh bahr"bi tawl', -tal', -neuh-/, n. Pharm.
a white, crystalline powder, C12H12N2O3, used as a sedative, a hypnotic, and as an antispasmodic in epilepsy.
Also, esp. Brit., phenobarbitone /fee'noh bahr"bi tohn', -neuh-/. Also called phenylethylbarbituric acid.
[1915-20; PHENO- + BARBITAL]

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      barbiturate drug that became available in 1912, used in medicine as a sedative-hypnotic. See barbiturate.

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