Morphine Definition

môrfēn
noun
A bitter, white or colorless, crystalline narcotic alkaloid, C17H19NO3H2O, derived from opium and used in medicine to relieve pain.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Morphine

  • French from Morphée Morpheus from Latin Morpheus

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

  • From Ancient Greek Morpheus the god of dreams.

    From Wiktionary

Morphine Sentence Examples

  • The sale and use of morphine in India and Burma is now restricted.

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

  • In some abdominal conditions, for instance, opium is still preferred by the majority of practitioners, though certainly not in gastric cases, where morphine gives the relief for which opium often increases the need, owing to the irritant action of some of its constituents.

  • It is worse even than opium-eating, in proportion as morphine is more active than opium.

  • The condition may even go on to a fatal result should morphine be continuously withheld, but injection of even a small quantity of morphine causes these symptoms to cease abruptly.

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