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An alkaloid narcotic drug extracted from opium
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morphine
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Morphine was an American alternative rock group formed by Mark Sandman , Dana Colley , and Jerome Deupree in Cambridge , Massachusetts in 1989. After five successful albums and extensive touring, they disbanded in 1999 after frontman Sandman died of a heart ...
Wiktionary
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n. A crystalline alkaloid (7,8-didehydro-4,5-epoxy-17-methyl-morphinan-3,6-diol), extracted from opium, the salts of which are soluble in water and are used as analgesics, anaesthetics and sedatives; it is one of a group of morphine alkaloids.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES drug/heroin/morphine etc addict ▪ a recovering heroin addict EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Alcohol thus resembles opium and its derivatives morphine and heroin, all of which target the endorphin system. ▪ Besides which, a blood ...
WordNet
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n. an alkaloid narcotic drug extracted from opium; a powerful, habit-forming narcotic used to relieve pain [syn: morphia ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
chief alkaloid of opium, 1828, from French morphine or German Morphin (1816), name coined by German apothecary Friedrich Sertürner (1783-1840) in reference to Latin Morpheus , Ovid's name for the god of dreams, from Greek morphe "form, shape, beauty, outward ...
Usage examples of morphine.
Thus, in experimental animals the phenolic hydroxyl group of morphine has been shown to be susceptible to methylation both in vivo and in vitro, with the resultant formation of codeine.
These are N-demethylation to form norcodeine, 0-demethylation to morphine, and glucuronide formation.
O-demethylated metabolite morphine and the glucuronidated morhpine metabolite M6G.
Our boy Graham cold-cocked him from behind with the whiskey bottle, gave him a veinful of morphine, cleaned out the safe, and tiptoed home through the tulips.
Dr Strout, are you saying that twelve milligrams of morphine injected directly into the vein is sufficient to cause death?
Mr Russo did fall unconscious from the combined effect of alcohol and morphine, it is true, is it not, that this scenario is not consistent with Sal Russo having administered the morphine himself?
On the morphine, for example, Sal asked if twelve milligrams could be a lethal dose.
I brought this gun with me, just in case, but then there was the morphine out on the table.
He had hated being a morphine junkie, but he had liked how it made him feel.
Reaching down, he gripped his leg, splaying his fingers across the fabric of his pants and listened as the little vials of morphine clicked together quietly in his pocket.
The junkie remembered how to poke the needle through the foil cap on the morphine just so, then to invert the vial and pull back the stopper on the syringe.
Dylan or because of his indiscretions with morphine seemed to dissolve immediately, and from that moment on Kat and Eric were friends, bound by that hot, humid August afternoon when they had each shared a dark and brooding secret.
Eric shook his head, feeling the morphine sweep over him in a heavy, soothing cloak.
He had pumped the morphine into one of the many IV tubes sticking out of Eric.
And why would he be up on Palliative Care giving out morphine in the first place?