Luminal, n. Pharm.
(ˈl(j)uːmɪnæl)
Also luminal.
[prob. f. L. lūmin-, lūmen light (as a rendering of phen-) + -al2.]
A proprietary name of phenobarbitone.
| 1912 Trade Marks Jrnl. 20 Mar. 402 Luminal... A medicine for human use as a sedative and hypnotic. The Bayer Company, Limited,..Manchester; manufacturers. 1928 Daily Express 7 Dec. 12 Gave him five grains of luminal. He'll sleep for a few hours and wake up penitent. 1937 Times 6 Sept. 7/5 For the defence, it was suggested that the shock of the collision, together with the use of luminal (a narcotic), would account for the symptoms. 1951 ‘E. Crispin’ Long Divorce iv. 37 As a doctor, she had remedies to hand—barbitone, nembutal, luminal. 1960 W. G. Lennox Epilepsy II. xxvi. 860 Luminal (Winthrop-Stearns) is phenobarbital that costs more. |