NOUN
- barbiturate that is a white odorless slightly bitter powder (trade name Seconal) used as a sodium salt for sedation and to treat convulsions
How To Use Seconal In A Sentence
- Raving, starving herself, addicted to Seconal and Dexedrine, Tippy makes a dramatic transformation from beautiful to mean.
- If the patient is using Seconal, it's either mixed in water to create a bitter drink or stirred into pudding or applesauce to hide the taste.
- The inquest heard Dr Iqbal first prescribed the barbiturate Seconal for the princess in July 1999 after another patient told him she needed the drugs.
- Valley of the Dolls had been so crucial in my life not because of its word to the wise about the inadvisability of mixing Seconal and Scotch, but for the three sentences that explained how to go about getting undressed before the first time you have sex: go into the bathroom, take your clothes off, and reemerge with a towel wrapped around yourself. What Girls Want
- He undressed, took a Seconal, lay down on the couch.
- However, even Seconal did not work and he tended to drink his way into unconsciousness.
- He was also anxious to lie down and take a seconal. Hemingway on Hunting
- First, seconal to induce quick sleep, then a muscle relaxant to stop breathing, and finally potassium chloride to stop the heart. A Letter from Dr. Kevorkian
- Take Stanley, a therapist, who presided over the death of a patient who swallowed 15 Seconal tablets (a barbiturate), but who failed to take an anti-emetic, to prevent vomiting.
- Devastated, Auden increased his intake of Benzedrine and Seconal to help him sleep.