Converse of object

• include: The animal experimentation involved in Cold Buster's development included rats being frozen, starved, and injected with drugs, including barbiturates.

• use: SCULLY: Well, I'd use a fast-acting barbiturate like pentobarbital.

• take: Q. My mother aged 71 has recently been taking barbiturate sleeping pills.

• receive: Withdrawal symptoms occur in infants born to women who receive barbiturates during the last trimester of pregnancy.

• ingest: Death commonly occurs after 2 to 10g of ingested barbiturate.

• administer: Valium® ) if indicated, at a dose of 1-2 mg/kg iv ( do not administer barbiturates or other cardiorespiratory depressants ).

Converse of subject

• induce: Anesthesia can be induced by barbiturate or non-barbiturate drugs.

Adjective modifier

• other: It has stronger anticonvulsant properties than most other barbiturates, and may be preferentially concentrated in metabolically active epileptic foci.

• most: In general, an oral dose of 1g of most barbiturates produces serious poisoning in an adult.

Modifies a noun

• intoxication: And there was barbiturate intoxication and deaths from Vioxx which I found so helpful.

• anesthesia: Indeed, there is evidence to suggest that given with barbiturate anesthesia, it can reduce the relapse rate with anesthetic withdrawal.

• poisoning: She died at the age of 53 from barbiturate poisoning; attributed to suicide.

• drug: Phenobarbital and other barbiturate drugs and anti-anxiety drugs like Valium exert their calming effects by enhancing the activity of GABA-A receptors.

• overdose: The Dutch use a barbiturate overdose, often combined with curare, to cause death, which results from not breathing, by asphyxia.

• tablet: Barbiturate sleeping tablets are notorious for causing dreadful nightmares, and even hallucinations, in elderly folk.

Preposition: during

• trimester: Withdrawal symptoms occur in infants born to women who receive barbiturates during the last trimester of pregnancy.

Preposition: with

• excitement: Elderly or debilitated patients may react to barbiturates with marked excitement, depression or confusion ( see ' Contra-indications ' ).