See Also: chloral betaine(medicine)
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Betaine(medicine)
glycine betaine(medicine)
glycyl betaine(medicine)
betaine-aldehyde dehydrogenase(medicine)
p-chloral(medicine)
chloral(dictionary)
chloral(medicine)
m-chloral(medicine)

parsley-piert (iou) and chloral betaine (medicine)


parsley-piert (iou)



parsley-piert noun. L16.
[App. popular alt. of French perce-pierre lit. 'pierce-stone' (cf. breakstone s.v. BREAK-), infl. by PARSLEY See also PERCEPIER.]
Either of two dwarf plants of the rose family, Aphanes arvensis and A. inexspectata, of dry or stony ground, cornfields, etc., with fan-shaped trifid leaves and minute green axillary flowers. Formerly also (by confusion), the knawel, Scleranthus annuus.

chloral betaine (medicine)


chloral betaine


The adduct formed by chloral hydrate and betaine; it is slowly hydrolyzed in the alimentary tract to chloral hydrate; used as a hypnotic and sedative.