Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A bitter crystalline alkaloid, C17H19NO3·H2O, extracted from opium, the soluble salts of which are used in medicine as an analgesic, a light anesthetic, or a sedative. Also called morphia.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An alkaloid, C17H19N03, the most important narcotic principle of opium. It crystallizes in brilliant, colorless, odorless, and bitter prisms. It dulls pain, induces sleep, promotes perspiration, checks peristalsis, contracts the pupil, and is extensively used in medicine in the form of its soluble salts. In large doses it causes death with narcotic symptoms.
Wiktionary
- 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.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Chem.) A bitter white crystalline alkaloid found in opium, possessing strong narcotic properties, and much used as an anodyne; -- called also
morphia , andmorphina .
WordNet 3.0
- n. an alkaloid narcotic drug extracted from opium; a powerful, habit-forming narcotic used to relieve pain
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek Morpheus the god of dreams. (Wiktionary)
- French, from Morphée, Morpheus, from Latin Morpheus. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“What difference does it make when morphine is legal, when booze is legal?”
“Roy is in a deep state of depression and starts to tell Alexandria an epic story in order to get her to do things for him, namely steal morphine from the hospital pharmacy.”
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“It's pretty obvious Gonzales was hoping that Ashcroft was swimming in morphine and ready to sign anything.”
“It turns into something called six monoacetylmorphine, which can be there for six or eight hours, and then it turns into morphine, which is there for days.”
“Yes a German Scientist found a new medicine called morphine and later codiene from the Opium plant.”
“The lymphatics of the skin we have already spoken of as producing the phenomena of absorption, [Footnote: Pain is often relieved by injecting under the cuticle a solution of morphine, which is taken up by the absorbents, and so carried through the system.]”
Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics
“It contains from 8 to 14 per cent. of morphine, which is its principal alkaloid.”
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“Until he learns this I would apply the wet towel of reason to the doctor, for fear he becomes lukewarm in his studies and gives his patient a hypodermic injection of morphine, which is the advice as given at the last council of medical men who practice "old established" theories rather than be honest enough to say:”
“So the medical people gave me opium -- a preparation of it, called morphine, and ether -- and ever since I have been calling it my amreeta draught, my elixir, -- because the tranquillizing power has been wonderful.”
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846
“Current medications for neurapathic disorders include morphine, which is highly addictive, and gabapentin - both act on nerve receptors.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘morphine’.
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SCIE - EU nomenclature
All the scientific words found in the official EU nomenclature. For the screening I used Vocabgrabber of the Visual Thesaurus.
silicon, silica, shrimp, shelve, shallot, serine, seedling, septic, secretin, seaweed, screening, Scomber and 1171 more...
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G[r]eek
A collection of words found in English that are either purely Greek or have Greek etymology.
Please add with caution and certainty. Will be regularly updated by me.etymology, philosophy, laconic, disharmony, patriarchic, archaic, phlogiston, aether, aeon, angel, arachnid, rhythm and 346 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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Band or Brand?
Band names that are also common words or phrases.
genesis, who, beatles, journey, germs, sublime, doors, cars, nirvana, bangles, tool, pixies and 192 more...
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BIOL - the brain
tumor, retina, tremor, arousal, clot, ruptured blood ve..., pressure on a blo..., brain region, comprehension of ..., production of mea..., autonomic nervous..., conservation of t... and 564 more...
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Vocab Words
Common words and their meanings.
Ra eh RA EH ..............whim, debilitating, grimoire, vain, morphine, shingle, muzzle, moccasin, stifle, fiend, chain of command, clandestine and 9 more...
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Medical terms or linguistic terms?
That's a terrible ablative case. Get me some morpheme, stet!
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candy cane heroin
sex, sexual, branden, rozz, candy cane, candy canes, cotton candy, may day, may, taurus, heroin, love and 134 more...
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whitmanian
from the poetry and prose of walt whitman
celebrate, assume, loafe, grass, summer, distillation, atmosphere, undisguised, naked, mad, breath, loveroot and 291 more...
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beautiful words
quench, metropolitan, dollop, cucumber, aesthetic, superfluous, gastronomy, nymph, obsequious, serendipity, champagne, gossamer and 125 more...
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-ine
of; like; pertaining to; feminine ending; abstract noun ending
canine, asinine, heroine, discipline, vaseline, iodine, morphine, crystalline, stibine
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thegirlnextfloor's list
autumnal, avalanche, silhouette, antique, abysmal, scorch, sonic, surge, symmetry, whisper, penchant, dissipate and 349 more...
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nuwerdna's Words
smegma, defenestration, nubile, zeitgeist, stochastic, ergodic, stability, maudlin, recursion, aversion, agent, set and 239 more...
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thricedotted's Words
schadenfreude, vanquish, calumny, obsequious, rhapsody, expostulate, promontory, bordello, quintessence, catharsis, recapitulation, myriad and 937 more...
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GRE uncommon
patronage, expletive, exhort, exegesis, execrable, excommunicate, evince, escarpment, ersatz, ergo, epoxy, snare and 1202 more...
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