chloral hydrate

noun

1. a colourless crystalline soluble solid produced by the reaction of chloral with water and used as a sedative and hypnotic; 2,2,2-trichloro-1,1-ethanediol. Formula: CCl 3 CH(OH) 2

Example Sentences

Greater care must be exercised, though, in those instances where such a deoxidizer as chloral hydrate is accidentally present.

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She was wrapped in a thickening cloud of opiates—morphia by day, bromides, sulphonal, chloral hydrate at night.

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In large doses chloral hydrate is a depressant to the circulation and the respiration, and also lowers the temperature.

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Chloral hydrate must be well diluted when given by the mouth, as otherwise it may cause considerable gastro-intestinal irritation.

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Liebreich has given the medicine in drachm doses, and recommended it as an hypnotic superior to chloral hydrate.

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