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Pentothal Pharm.|ˈpɛntəʊθæl| Also (erron.) Pentathol, and with small initial. [Refash. of thiopental.] A proprietary name for thiopentone sodium; also called Pentothal sodium, sodium Pentothal.
1935Proc. Mayo Clinic X. 744 Sodium ethyl 1-methyl butyl thiobarbituric acid (thionembutal or pentothal sodium) and sodium allyl secondary butyl thiobarbituric acid (thiosebutal) induce a satisfactorily deep but relatively transitory anesthesia. 1936Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 11 Feb. 238/2 Abbott Laboratories, North Chicago, Ill. Filed Dec. 6, 1935... Pentothal... For pharmaceutical product having hypnotic, sedative and anesthetic properties. Claims use since Nov. 15, 1935. 1936Trade Marks Jrnl. 28 Oct. 1326/1 Pentothal... Chemical substances prepared for use in medicine and pharmacy. Abbott Laboratories.., City of North Chicago,..State of Illinois, United States of America; manufacturers of pharmaceutical products. 1940N. & Q. 22 June 448/2, I observe in the press mention of two drugs to induce sleep with new names, Evipan and Pentothal. 1946M. Dickens Happy Prisoner viii. 153 Elizabeth..suggested Pentathol therapy. 1967Punch 1 Mar. 321/3 One could only ask—..after the mystics, the ESP experts and the computing machines, after the sodium pentathol examinations and the lie detector tests..—after all that was he to turn out to be this nondescript house-painter and handyman who killed at random? 1969Daily Tel. 16 Dec. 15/1 Interviewed under the truth drug pentathol, he told doctors he did not realise he had done the baby any harm. 1973G. Greene Honorary Consul v. iii. 273 Dying is a wonderfully effective truth drug, better than pentathol. 1974M. C. Gerald Pharmacol. xi. 195 Non⁓volatile anesthetics include the intravenously administered barbiturate thiopental (Pentothal). |