chloralamide
English
Etymology
chloral + amide
Noun
chloralamide (plural chloralamides)
- (chemistry) A compound of chloral and formic amide, used to induce sleep.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for chloralamide in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)