Barbiturates

Barbiturates

Depressant drugs that produce relaxation and sleep. Barbiturates include sleeping pills such as pentobarbital (Nembutal) and secobarbital (Seconal).

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barbiturates

Health care; Drug rehabilitation

Depressant drugs that produce relaxation and sleep. Barbiturates include sleeping pills such as pentobarbital (Nembutal) and secobarbital (Seconal).

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Health care; Cancer treatment

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Medical; Medicine

Chronic poisoning by any of the derivatives of barbituric acid; symptoms, which are indistinct, include cutaneous eruption accompanied by chills, fever, and headache.

barbiturate

Medical; Medicine

A derivative of barbituric acid (phenobarbital) that act as CNS depressants and are used for their tranquilizing, hypnotic, and anti-seizure effects; most barbiturates have the ...

barbiturates

Science; General science

A group of drugs widely used for the suppression of anxiety, the induction of sleep, and the control of seizures. Some of them, when injected intravenously, produce a general ...

barbiturates

Medical; Health care; Medicine

A class of chemicals derived from barbituric acid or thiobarbituric acid. Many of these are GABA modulators used as hypnotics and sedatives, as anesthetics, or as anticonvulsants.

gene

Health care; Drug rehabilitation

Strands of DNA that contain the blueprint of all the molecules that make up our bodies.

nicotine gum, nicotine patch

Health care; Drug rehabilitation

Two methods of delivering small amounts of nicotine into the bodies of people who are addicted to nicotine to help them quit smoking cigarettes by preventing nicotine withdrawal.

acute effects

Health care; Drug rehabilitation

The short-term effects of a drug. Acute effects are those that people feel shortly after they ingest a drug and are under its influence (e.g., while they are intoxicated).

localization of function

Health care; Drug rehabilitation

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cerebral cortex

Health care; Drug rehabilitation

The large, deeply folded outer layers of the brain that make our heads so big. The cortex carries out complex perceptual, cognitive, and motor tasks.

thalamus

Health care; Drug rehabilitation

A brain structure that lies between the brain stem and the cortex and acts as a relay to the cortex for almost all sensory inputs and other kinds of information.