Antineoplastic agent that is also used as a veterinary anesthetic. It has also been used as an intermediate in organic synthesis. Urethane is suspected to be a carcinogen.
Ethyl carbonate.
Of Dumas, ethyl carbamate, so called because first regarded as a compound of urea with ethyl carbonate, NH2COOC2H5. It acts as a hypnotic.
Any one of the carbamates of a hydrocarbon radicle.