barbital

[ bahr-bi-tawl, -tal ]

nounPharmacology.
  1. a barbiturate compound, C7O3N2H12, formerly used as a hypnotic.

Origin of barbital

1
1915–20; barbit(uric acid) + (Veron)al, the name of a formerly used sedative and hypnotic

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