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CHLORAL HYDRATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does chloral hydrate mean?
• CHLORAL HYDRATE (noun)
The noun CHLORAL HYDRATE has 1 sense:
1. a colorless crystalline drug used as a sedative; irritates the stomach and can be addictive
Familiarity information: CHLORAL HYDRATE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A colorless crystalline drug used as a sedative; irritates the stomach and can be addictive
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("chloral hydrate" is a kind of...):
depressant; downer; sedative; sedative drug (a drug that reduces excitability and calms a person)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chloral hydrate"):
knockout drops (chloral hydrate in combination with alcohol; usually administered surreptitiously to make the drinker unconscious)
Context examples
Chloral hydrate is converted to the active compound trichloroethanol by hepatic alcohol dehydrogenase.
(Chloral Hydrate, NCI Thesaurus)
Dichloralphenazone, a complex of chloral hydrate, which possesses hypnotic and sedative activity, and antipyrine, a pyrazolone analgesic and an antipyretic.
(Isometheptene/Dichloralphenazone/Acetaminophen, NCI Thesaurus)
In addition, chloral hydrate enhances the agonistic effects of glycine receptors, inhibits AMPA-induced calcium influx in cortical neurons, and facilitates 5-HT 3 receptor-mediated currents in ganglionic neurons.
(Chloral Hydrate, NCI Thesaurus)
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