noun
- Drugs or medications that are not barbiturates; sedatives, hypnotics, or depressants that work through mechanisms other than barbiturate action.
Usage: plural form; medical/pharmaceutical context; often used in clinical or research settings to distinguish alternative drug classes
Examples
- Doctors now prefer nonbarbiturates like benzodiazepines for treating anxiety disorders.
- The study compared the efficacy of barbiturates and nonbarbiturates in sleep management.
- Nonbarbiturates have largely replaced older barbiturate medications in modern medicine.
- Patients were switched from barbiturates to nonbarbiturates due to safety concerns.
- The pharmaceutical industry has developed many nonbarbiturates with fewer side effects.