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morphine
[mawr-feen]
noun
a white, bitter, crystalline alkaloid, C 1 7 H 1 9 NO 3 ⋅H 2 O, the most important narcotic and addictive principle of opium, obtained by extraction and crystallization and used chiefly in medicine as a pain reliever and sedative.
morphine
/ ˈmɔːfiːn, ˈmɔːfɪə /
noun
an alkaloid extracted from opium: used in medicine as an analgesic and sedative, although repeated use causes addiction. Formula: C 17 H 19 NO 3
morphine
A highly addictive drug derived from opium and used to treat intractable pain, as in severe injury or metastatic cancer.
Other 51Թ Forms
- morphinic adjective
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of morphine1
Example Sentences
Following evidence submitted at a misconduct panel hearing in February, the TRA also found that on "one or more occasions" Mr Bright had offered morphine to Former Pupil A.
Back in the day, Sacramento authorities “escorted their criminals, morphine addicts and alcoholics” to the area, according to a historian quoted in the Sacramento Bee in 1984.
"When I woke up, I was so full of morphine," he remembers.
When her dressings are changed the nurses have to give her morphine.
The New Yorker was taken to a hospital where she received IV fluids and morphine and “the pain finally went away,” she said.
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