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codeine
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Codeine is an opiate used to treat pain , as a cough medicine , and for diarrhea . It is typically used to treat mild to moderate degrees of pain. Greater benefit may occur when combined with paracetamol (acetaminophen) or a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
alkaloid present in opium, 1838, from French codéine , coined, with chemical suffix -ine (2), from Greek kodeia "poppy head," related to kooz "prison," literally "hollow place;" kodon "bell, mouth of a trumpet;" koilos "hollow," from PIE root *kel- (2) ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Codeine \Co*de"ine\, n. [Gr. ? poppy head: cf. F. cod?ine.] (Chem.) One of the opium alkaloids; a white crystalline substance, C18H21NO3 , similar to and regarded as a derivative of morphine, but much feebler in its action; -- called also codeia . [1913 ...
Usage examples of codeine.
I highly recommend codeine and acetaminophen for putting your cares behind you.
Bolger and Miss Ryan had a codeine at a quarter to five, and Miss Freitz in four-eleven had a heparin and dextran about an hour later.
Fortunately, codeine is a rather mild narcotic, not nearly so powerful as what the Junkman took in by smoking.
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.
There were antibiotics, anti-inflammatory medication, anabolic steroids, including a full course of prednisone, and at least ten different types of pain medication, including codeine and morphine.
Ask for a pain-killer and they give you something with a bit of codeine and a trace of phenacetin as though it were morphia, and practically make you sign the poison book.
Never take any sleeping powders except upon the advice of a physician, for the majority of these sleeping powders contain some harmful drug, as morphine, codeine, phenacetin or acetanilid.
A tiny percentage of codeine gets metabolized into good old C17-morphine, affording an agonizing hint of what real relief from The Bird might feel like.
When, then, even the funds for the codeine syrup were exhausted, he still sat on the toilet of the rear stall of the A.
He kept trying to ask his heart if just codeine would be a relapse, according to the heart, but his heart was declining to comment.
Gately, but he was being a man about it and had refused codeine downstairs at the E.
Morphine is also a metabolite of codeine, and when codeine is metabolized in the blood we get very low levels of morphine.
I put the notes in the folder labelled LYONS-BENNET, found some codeine in the bathroom, and took myself off to the bedroom of raspberry and Viking gold.
He stretched out on the couch and finally, with the help of the codeine for his pain, was able to drift off to sleep thinking of Angie.
I stretched out, calling piteously and frequently to the stewardesses for codeine and cold water.