Luminal
[loo-muh-nl] /ˈlu mə nl/
Pharmacology, Trademark.
1.
a brand of .
n.
trade name of phenobarbitone, used as a sedative and hypnotic, coined 1912 in German from Latin lumen “light,” related to lucere “to shine” (see light (n.)), + -al (3), “the root here being used, very irregularly, as an equivalent of pheno- [Flood].
adj.
“of or pertaining to a lumen,” 1897, with -al (1).
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