Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Wiktionary
- n. A substance that is like opium.
- n. physiology Any of the natural substances, such as an endorphin, released in the body in response to pain.
- n. pharmacology Any of a group of synthetic compounds that exhibit similarities to the opium alkaloids that occur in nature.
Etymologies
- From opium + -oid (Wiktionary)
- opi(um) + -oid. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“There is little evidence that long-term opioid use is efficacious in reducing pain, much less in restoring function, the true goal of treatment," Seth Berkowitz and Mitchell Katz, physicians at the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, wrote in”
“Veteran patients who receive long-term opioid prescriptions generally are treated with modest and st ...”
“The researchers analyzed the medical, social and demographic characteristics of the participants and concluded that smoking and nonsurgical treatment independently predicted long-term opioid use, but pain severity did not.”
“Smoking, as well as the medicinal use of opioid painkillers such as oxycodone, are independent predictors of longer-term opioid pain medication use among patients with chronic back pain caused by lumbar spine conditions, a new U.S. study finds.”
“Therefore, the researchers were unable to consider substance abuse as a predictor of long-term opioid use.”
“The implications are controversial as published studies provide little evidence indicating which patients will benefit from long-term opioid treatment.”
“New research, published in The Journal of Pain, identifies predictors of long-term opioid use among patients with chronic back pain caused by lumbar spine conditions.”
“From their analysis of the demographic, medical and social characteristics of study participants, the researchers found that nonsurgical treatment and smoking independently predicted continued long-term opioid use and pain severity did not.”
“A take-home message for physicians reading this review is that all relevant studies find that long-term opioid therapy improves the life of non-cancer patients experiencing chronic pain and is both safe and effective, DeLuca said, and there is zero evidence to the contrary.”
“Healthcare providers can be reasonably assured that only a very small percentage of their patients with chronic pain, if any, will exhibit abuse / addiction when receiving long-term opioid analgesics.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘opioid’.
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Substancestry
Mysterious and theoretical substances and "stuff" of legend. More emphasis on the ancient, mystical, mythical, folklore, mathematical, and scientific. I won't be listing too many "sci-fi" or comed...
ylem, ichor, aether, ectoplasm, impossible object, quark star, eucharist, pixie dust, eitr, elixir of life, philosopher's stone, alkahest and 126 more...
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Words with two Os in them
theriomorphic, zoo, oberon, pool, tool, fool, cool, school, occlusion, operation, opioid, solenoid and 24 more...
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try to use now and then
exacerbate, inveterate, obviate, verbose, exasperate, disingenuous, squit, ingenue, Opiate, opioid, revile, decrepit and 14 more...
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Drugs
Takes 12-15 years and $800 million to bring a drug to the market. For every 10,000 compounds that go through animal studies, 10 will go to human trials (3 phases) to get 1 to the market.
In g...ephedrine, penicillin, librium, tetracycline, xenobiotic, teratogenic, labile sites, cholinergic, prostaglandin, patient compliance, GABA, barbiturates and 72 more...
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kimo2000's Words
pakalolo, miliated, voodoo, vindaloo, hacienda, acquiesce, addlepated, olio, akimbo, apropos, oogenesis, arugula and 181 more...
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Slightly Amusing Words
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Did Someone Say a Dinner Party?
It's a hazardous world out there...poison all around. I've tried not to include too many drugs (including medicines) and have ignored the fact that too much of anything can poison you. We're going ...
cyanide, botulinum, chlorine, mustard gas, hydrogen cyanide gas, mercury, arsenic, ricin, strychnine, aconite, acetic acid, acetone and 147 more...
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The Brain
somatosensory cortex, optic chiasm, cerebral hemisphere, dura matter, meninges, neurotransmitters, proprioception, amygdala, axon, blood-brain barrier, hippocampus, fissures and 49 more...
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OrbitalCombustion's Words
nepenthe, phrontistery, peregrination, pervicacious, sinistrality, phallogocentric, prolixity, leptokurtic, ineffable, haecceity, lucubration, vicissitudes and 1026 more...
Tweets
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whichbe (n.) An opium-like substance produced naturally in the brain.
(adj.) Possessing some properties characteristic of opiate. Narcotics but not derived from opium.
(From WWFTD) Jun 6, 2008