Definition of paraldehyde in English:
paraldehyde
noun pəˈraldɪhʌɪdpəˈraldəˌhīd
mass nounChemistry A liquid made by treating acetaldehyde with acid, used medicinally as a sedative, hypnotic, and anticonvulsant.
A cyclic trimer of acetaldehyde; chemical formula: (CH₃CHO)₃
Example sentencesExamples
- Quinaldine can be made by reacting aniline, hydrochloric acid, and paraldehyde.
- His first wife Vivienne had been prescribed Hoffman's anodyne and paraldehyde to treat her nervous condition, two anesthetics that exude a strong scent of ether.
- A young woman had a fit, and all the paraldehyde and other Western intervention we tried would not stop it.
- Parenteral paraldehyde may be indicated in the emergency treatment of status epilepticus and of convulsions induced by tetanus or eclampsia, when other agents are not effective.