Assertion: barbiturate | /r/ObjectUse | used as sedative
Facets:
value: for many years
type: TEMPORAL
value: for seizure disorders
type: PURPOSE
value: historically
type: TEMPORAL
value: primarily
type: DEGREE
value: once commonly
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Between the 1920s and the mid-1950s, barbiturates were practically the only drugs used as sedatives and hypnotics.
text: Seconal is the trade name used to market secobarbital sodium, a barbiturate used as a sedative, anticonvulsant, hypnotic and anesthetic.
text: Barbiturates are a class of drugs that are used as sedatives.
text: Barbiturates are sedative-hypnotic drugs that were once commonly used as sedatives or antianxiety medications.
text: Barbiturates produce a wide spectrum of central nervous system depression, from mild sedation to coma, and have been used as sedatives, hypnotics, anesthetics, and anticonvulsants .
text: For many years, barbiturates were used as sedatives.
text: For many years, barbiturates were used as sedatives.
text: Barbiturates have been used as sedatives and anesthetics, and they have been used to treat the convulsions associated with epilepsy.
text: Barbiturates—which produce a wide spectrum of CNS depression, from mild sedation to coma—have been used as sedatives, hypnotics, anesthetics, and anticonvulsants since they were first introduced for medical use in the early 1900s.
text: Barbiturates are a class of drugs which have historically been used as sedatives and anesthetics.
text: Barbiturates are used as sedatives, hypnotics, or as part of anesthesia.
text: The barbiturates phenobarbital, amobarbital, pentobarbital, and secobarbital have been around the longest and are used primarily as sedatives or for seizure disorders (phenobarbital).