Codeine Definition

kōdēn, -dē-ĭn
noun
A narcotic alkaloid, C18H21NO3H2O, derived from opium and resembling morphine, but less habit-forming: used in cough medicines and to relieve pain.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Codeine

  • French codéine Greek kōdeia poppy head (from kōos cavity keuə- in Indo-European roots) -ine alkaloid –ine2

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French codéine.

    From Wiktionary

Codeine Sentence Examples

  • A small amount of morphine and codeine is also manufactured in India for medicinal use.

  • The remedy most trusted to in this disease is opium and its alkaloids, morphine and codeine.

  • Tannic acid, for instance, precipitates codeine as a tannate, salts of many of the heavy metals form precipitates of meconates and sulphates, whilst the various alkalis, alkaline carbonates and ammonia precipitate the important alkaloids.

  • The only alkaloids likely to remain in the prepared opium, and capable of producing well-marked physiological results, are morphine, codeine and narceine.

  • Morphine, in the pure state, can be sublimed, but codeine and narceine are said not to give a sublimate.

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