morphine

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Man has taken the opium and refined it into morphine which is highly addictive.

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  1. noun 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.

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  1. French, from Morphée, Morpheus, from Latin Morpheus.

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  1. from French morphine = Portuguese morphina = Italian morfina, from New Latin morphina, morphine, from Latin Morpheus, the god of sleep: see Morpheus.
 

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