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morphia

[ UK /mˈɔːfiɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. an alkaloid narcotic drug extracted from opium; a powerful, habit-forming narcotic used to relieve pain

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  • Rousing the man, I caused him to swallow some pints of warm water, and then I gave him a hypodermic injection of apomorphia. AN AUSTRALIAN IN CHINA
  • But… he gave each of them a ‘shot’ of morphia, whereupon all traces of fatigue vanished.
  • It never yields more than five per cent. of morphia, whence its inferiority, but is as good in other respects, and even richer in narcotine. Himalayan Journals — Complete
  • The endermic exhibition of morphia may also be resorted to for the purpose of relieving the pain incident to the wound, of preventing the development of tetanic symptoms, and of securing quietude and sleep to the patient. An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.
  • When the apomorphia began to do its work there was a struggle of another sort, out of which emerged a pallid and somewhat stricken reincarnation of the governor. The Grafters
  • The only Australian fossorial mammal is the marsupial mole, Notoryctes typhlops (order Notoryctimorphia, family Notoryctidae).
  • In the opium from eight divisions of the agency, he found the quantity of morphia to range from 1¾ grains to 3½ grains per cent., and the amount of the narcotine to vary from ¾ grain to 3½ grains per cent., the consistence of the various specimens being between 75 and 79 per cent. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
  • Considering that depression can cause poor self-esteem and sometimes even body dysmorphia, it's also possible that depressed teens would self-report "substantial" acne more often than their peers.
  • Jenkins, is eloquent exceedingly upon the _narcotine_ of fashionable life: declares that its soothing influences were unequalled by vapour of purest mundungus, or acetate of morphia, or even pill of opium, blended intimately with glass of _eau-de-vie_. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843
  • The chemical examination of different soils in connection with their opium-producing powers, presents a field for profitable and interesting inquiry; nor is the least important part of the investigation that which has reference to variations in the proportions of the alkaloids (especially the morphia and narcotine), which occur in opium produced in various localities. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
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