Amytal

Examples

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• Sodium Amytal is often used to induce sleep in patients suffering from severe insomnia.

• In psychotic patients, particularly catatonic schizophrenics, who will not talk and therefore do not participate in psychiatric therapy or reveal any clues to the mental experiences that may underlie their disorder, sodium amytal has been used to facilitate communication with the patient (117).

  Blog text (32)

• You won't find any amytal in her system.

  Side Effects (2013)

• She should respond beautifully to Amytal.

  Don't Say a Word (2001)

• Sodium amytal gives us a window into someone's psyche.

  Side Effects (2013)

• They tried sodium amytal on him three years ago, to find out... where he buried the Princeton student.

  Red Dragon (2002)

• Sodium amytal is a drug that induces a highly impressionable, trancelike euphoria.

  Hellraiser: Hellworld (2005)

• Sodium amytal has been found helpful in determining whether a subject is feigning ignorance of the English language (96).

  Blog text (32)

• The psychiatrist prescribed Amytal as a sedative to help the patient relax during therapy.

Synonyms

B

blue

vsAmytal

• Archaic

49 9.9

An old sedative drug once used to help people sleep

is a brand name for the same salt rather than a general name

A

amobarbital

vsAmytal

• Specialized

1 9.8

A medicine that makes people sleep and helps control seizures

refers specifically to the sodium salt form and is a brand name

A

amobarbital sodium

vsAmytal

• Specialized

8.2

A drug used to calm people and help them sleep

is a brand name for the same salt rather than a scientific term

B

blue devil

vsAmytal

• Archaic

9.9

A strong sleeping medicine that makes people sleep

is a brand name rather than an informal common label for the same salt

B

blue angel

vsAmytal

• Archaic

9.9

A strong medicine that makes people sleep and calms them

is the brand name for that salt rather than the generic drug name

Surface Forms

Etymology