Nembutal
[nem-byuh-tawl, -tal]
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Pharmacology, Trademark.
a brand of pentobarbital.
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But Lundbeck, the Danish maker of Nembutal, no longer sells the drug to U.S. prisons.
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Nembutal
noun
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Nembutal
type of barbiturate, 1930, proprietary name of pentobarbitone sodium, formed from letters and syllables from N(a) "sodium" + full chemical name 5-ethyl-5-1-methylbutyl barbiturate.
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Nembutal
[nĕm′byə-tôl′]
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