pentobarbital

pentobarbital (usually uncountable, plural pentobarbitals)

1. (biochemistry) Short-acting barbiturate that is available as both a free acid and a sodium salt.
   • 2016, Christopher Kelly, The Pink Bus. Mapple Shade, New Jersey: Lethe Press. p. 146.

     And lest anyone think traipsing through the gray and bleach-smelly execution chamber where triple homicide offenders are injected with pentobarbital isn't depressing enough, later they will stage a press conference in front of the gates of Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery, the parched plot of land where executed prisoners whose bodies family members prefer not to claim are buried.

• equitensin
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• pentobarbitone