Pronunciaciones (3)
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/ˈsɛkəˌnɔl/
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/ˈsɛkəˌnɑl/
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ˈsekəˌnɔl
Sustantivo
A barbiturate drug used as a sedative and hypnotic, a trade name of secobarbital.
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Nearly every pharmaceutical house has its own brands, sold in tablets, solutions or brightly-colored capsules, on which its “detail men” keep doctors informed. Probably the most popular successors to Veronal are Seconal (“red birds” to the bootleg trade) and Nembutal (“yellow jackets”).
In spite of the seconal he was eaten up by his nerves. His face was covered with sweat.
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Each night she looked at the bottle of Seconals with affection. She never could do this without the dolls. She would have spent sleepless nights, smoking, worrying—and she would have lost her nerve.
Doctor, they can stand on the window ledge and threaten to splatter themselves on the pavement below, they can pile the Seconal to the ceiling—I may have to live for weeks and weeks on end in terror of these marriage-bent girls throwing themselves beneath the subway train, but I simply cannot, I simply will not, enter into a contract to sleep with just one woman for the rest of my days.
His horror of insomnia, compounded with a family history of compulsive worrying, caused him to down three or four Placidyls, Seconals, Quaaludes, or Tuinals almost every night—and often it was a combination of all four.
Seconal is the commercial name of the barbiturate quinalbarbitone. Its generic name is secobarbital. […] Both Rohypnol and Seconal are physically addictive, and use of all three drugs rapidly builds up tolerance.
Sustantivo
barbiturate that is a white odorless slightly bitter powder (trade name Seconal) used as a sodium salt for sedation and to treat convulsions
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