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truth' se"rum




a drug, as the barbiturate thiopental, that induces in the subject a desire to talk or a state of heightened suggestibility, used in psychotherapy and in interrogation to discover repressed or consciously withheld information. Also,truth' drug".Cf. narcoanalysis.

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