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purple_heart has definitions from the fields of medicine,pharmacology,military
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[ noun ] (military) a US military decoration awarded to any member of the armed forces who is wounded in action

Synonyms

Order_of_the_Purple_Heart

Used in print

(Tristram Coffin, Not to the Swift....)

`` He recommended both of them for the DSM and the Detroit fellow for the Purple_Heart , too , for a combat inflicted wound .

Related terms

decoration

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[ noun ] (medicine,pharmacology) a long-acting barbiturate used as a sedative

Synonyms

phenobarbital phenobarbitone Luminal sodium_thiopental

Related terms

barbiturate

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