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  • noun informal, uncountable The drug phenobarbital or phenobarbitone.
  • noun informal, countable A tablet of the drug.

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Examples

  • Of course she had some long-term effects, but those were mostly associated with what we now know is drastic overmedication with dilantin and phenobarb.

    Regarding The CAT Scan Of Terri Schiavo’s Brain 2005

  • Katzka knew exactly how much phenobarb it took to end a life.

    Harvest Tess Gerritsen 1996

  • Now it was three years later and Annie was buried and those phenobarb pills had long since been disposed of.

    Harvest Tess Gerritsen 1996

  • Katzka knew exactly how much phenobarb it took to end a life.

    Harvest Tess Gerritsen 1996

  • Now it was three years later and Annie was buried and those phenobarb pills had long since been disposed of.

    Harvest Tess Gerritsen 1996

  • Now it was three years later and Annie was buried and those phenobarb pills had long since been disposed of.

    Harvest Tess Gerritsen 1996

  • Katzka knew exactly how much phenobarb it took to end a life.

    Harvest Tess Gerritsen 1996

  • It should not have an effect on decomposition -- standard worms, bugs, microbes should still be present, and the phenobarb or other drug shouldn't affect adjacent plants.

    Ask MetaFilter 2009

  • The use of phenobarb to keep her comfortable, kept her virtually comatose, waking only occasionally.

    Thoughts on Freedom 2009

  • She was a little fighter and as her tiny body became resistant to the effects of phenobarb, so the doses increased.

    Thoughts on Freedom 2009

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