Luminal
/ˈluːmɪn(ə)l
/noun
Trademark for phenobarbitone.Since Luminal is a sedative that was often administered in small doses to unruly children at the time - there was no other way to treat epilepsy, for instance - nurses often had no way of knowing who was administering the fatal dose....
- Intravenous sodium amytal (Amytal, Luminal, Nembutal) elicited no benefit, but intravenous zolpidem did.
- The most popular lethal drug was Luminal, a barbiturate, closely followed by morphine for children resistant to the Luminal.
Origin
Early 20th century: probably from Latin lumen 'light' (rendering phen-, from Greek phaino- 'shining'), + -al.
- hearer
- hear! hear!
- hearing
- hearing aid
- hearing dog
- hearing-impaired
- hearing loop
- hearken
- hear Mass
- hearsay
- hear say (or tell) of (or that)
- hearse
- Hearst, Patty
- Hearst, William Randolph
- heart
- heartache
- heart-aching
- heart and soul
- heart attack
- heart attack on a plate
- heart-balm
- heart-bearer
- heartbeat
- heart-bleeding
- heart block