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stargazer(dictionary)

thiopentone (iou) and stargazer (iou)


thiopentone (iou)



thiopentone noun. M20.
[from THIO- + PENT(OBARBIT)ONE.]
Pharmacology. A sulphur analogue of pentobarbitone; (more fully thiopentone sodium) the sodium salt of this, used as a rapid-acting General anaesthetic and hypnotic.
? A proprietary name for this drug is PENTOTHAL.

stargazer (iou)



stargazer noun. M16.
[from STAR noun1 + GAZER.]
A person who gazes at the stars; colloq. an astrologer or astronomer. M16.
A fish of the family Uranoscopidae, members of which have small eyes set on the top of the head, electric organs, and a poisonous spine on the gill-covers; esp. Uranoscopus scaber of the Mediterranean and warmer coastal waters of the eastern Atlantic. Also (in full sand stargazer), a fish of the related family Dactyloscopidae. M17.
A horse that holds its head well up when trotting. slang. L18.