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  • noun A mixture of hydrochloride salts of opium alkaloids, used for pain relief and sedation.

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Examples

  • Another potentially serious reaction reported by Harries et al. also involved intravenous metronidazole, this time combined with cefotaxime and papaveretum in a patient who had been drinking heavily and stabbed in the chest and abdomen.

    OnThePharm 2008

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