Phenobarbital

Definition: Phenobarbital

Phenobarbital

Noun

1. A long-acting barbiturate used as a sedative.

Specialty Definitions: Phenobarbital

Domain	Definitions
Health	A barbituric acid derivative that acts as a nonselective central nervous system depressant. It promotes binding to inhibitory GABA subtype receptors, and modulates chloride currents through receptor channels. It also inhibits glutamate induced depolarizations. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Phenobarbital

Synonyms: phenobarbitone (n), purple heart (n), sodium thiopental (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Phenobarbital

Specialty definitions using "phenobarbital": Aryl Hydrocarbon Hydroxylases ♦ Cytochrome P-450 CYP2B1. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Phenobarbital" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

German (phenobarbital, phenobarbitone).

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Photo Album: Phenobarbital

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Ciba (pharmaceutical production), Summit, New Jersey. Transentine phenobarbital.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Phenobarbital

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Other commonly prescribed drugs include clonazepam, phenobarbital, and primidone. (references)
		Conversely, drugs such as phenytoin and phenobarbital may cause false-negative results in response to dexamethasone suppression. (references)
		There is no standard treatment for the neurological symptoms of LNS. Some symptoms may be relieved with the drugs carbidopa/levodopa, diazepam, phenobarbital, or haloperidol. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Phenobarbital

"Phenobarbital" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Phenobarbital" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	15	90,616

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Phenobarbital

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
phenobarbital	221
euthanasia phenobarbital	13
phenobarbital side effects	7
dog phenobarbital	6
dose lethal phenobarbital	3
phenobarbital dosage	2
belladonna and phenobarbital	2
phenobarbital online	2
history phenobarbital	2
phenobarbital overdose	2
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Modern Translations: Phenobarbital

Language		Translations for "phenobarbital"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		苯巴比妥. (various references)

Danish		phenobarbital. (various references)

Dutch		fenobarbital. (various references)

Finnish		fenobarbitaali. (various references)

French		phénobarbital. (various references)

German		Phenobarbital (phenobarbitone). (various references)

Greek		φαινοβαρβιτάλη. (various references)

Indonesian		obat tidur (barbiturat), obat penenang (sedative). (various references)

Italian		fenobarbitale, fenobarbital. (various references)

Pig Latin		enobarbitalphay

Portuguese		fenobarbital. (various references)

Romanian		fenobarbital. (various references)

Russian		фенобарбитал. (various references)

Spanish		fenobarbital. (various references)

Swedish		fenobarbital. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Phenobarbital

Derivations
	Words beginning with "phenobarbital": phenobarbitals. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Phenobarbital" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: phenobarb, phenobarbitol, Pneobarbital. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Phenobarbital

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-b-b-e-h-i-l-n-o-p-r-t"
	-3 letters: biparental, obtainable.
	-4 letters: alienator, antilabor, barbitone, baritonal, habitable, inhalator, parathion, parhelion, perinatal, printable, rabbinate, rationale, trainable.
	-5 letters: ablation, aeration, aerolith, airplane, alphabet, anthelia, antheral, antihero, antipole, antirape, aphanite, aphelian, aphelion, apholate, atonable, atrophia, atropine, barbital, bareboat, baritone, baronial, bathrobe, biathlon, bilobate, boatable, brantail, halation, heliport, hibernal, horntail, inarable, interlap, laborite, notarial, obtainer, oriental.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-b-b-e-h-i-l-n-o-p-r-t"
	+1 letter: phenobarbitals.
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