chloral

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: chlo=ral

CIDE DICTIONARY

chloral, n. [Chlorine + alcohol.].

•  A colorless oily liquid, CCl3.CHO, of a pungent odor and harsh taste, obtained by the action of chlorine upon ordinary or ethyl alcohol.  [1913 Webster]
•  Chloral hydrate.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

chloral, n.
1 a colourless liquid aldehyde used in making DDT.
2 (in full chloral hydrate) Pharm. a colourless crystalline solid made from chloral and used as a sedative.

Etymology

F f. chlore chlorine + alcool alcohol

ROGET THESAURUS

chloral

Physical Insensibility

N insensibility, physical insensibility, obtuseness, palsy, paralysis, paraesthesia, anaesthesia, sleep, hemiplegia, motor paralysis, vegetable state, coma, anaesthetic agent, opium, ether, chloroform, chloral, nitrous oxide, laughing gas, exhilarating gas, protoxide of nitrogen, refrigeration, insensible, unfeeling, senseless, impercipient, callous, thick- skinned, pachydermatous, hard, hardened, case hardened, proof, obtuse, dull, anaesthetic, comatose, paralytic, palsied, numb, dead.