Morphine
['mɔːfiːn] or ['mɔrfin]
Definition
(noun.) an alkaloid narcotic drug extracted from opium; a powerful, habit-forming narcotic used to relieve pain.
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Definition
(n.) A bitter white crystalline alkaloid found in opium, possessing strong narcotic properties, and much used as an anodyne; -- called also morphia, and morphina.
Typist: Veronica
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Morphia.[2]. Sulphate of morphia.
Editor: Wilma
Examples
- He said he was suffering very much, and asked if I had any morphine. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He requested that I give him some, so I got the morphine sulphate. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He continued to stay around until he finished every combination of morphine with an acid that I had, probably ten ounces all told. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Even lozenges and pastilles are not free from fraud, but have a goodly proportion of narcotics, containing in some cases chloroform, morphine, and ether. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- He took enough to kill a horse, and asserted it had as good an effect as morphine. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I was greatly disappointed, because I would have laid in another stock of morphine to keep him at the laboratory. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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