A crystalline compound made from chloral and glucose, formerly used as a sedative and anesthetic drug.
From chloral + -ose (chemistry suffix for sugars and carbohydrates). Created in the late 1800s by combining chloral with glucose.
Chloralose was marketed as a 'safer' alternative to chloral, but it was actually even more dangerous—it shows how medical innovation sometimes goes backward when we don't understand drugs fully!
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