glutethimide

[ gloo-teth-uh-mahyd ]

nounPharmacology.
  1. a white, crystalline, water-insoluble powder, C13H15NO2, used as a hypnotic and sedative.

Origin of glutethimide

1
First recorded in 1950–55; glute(n) + thi- + (a)mide

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