OPIUM
\ˈə͡ʊpi͡əm], \ˈəʊpiəm], \ˈəʊ_p_iə_m]\
Definitions of OPIUM
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The air-dried exudate from the unripe seed capsule of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, or its variant, P. album. It contains a number of alkaloids, but only a few - MORPHINE; CODEINE; and PAPAVERINE - have clinical significance. Opium has been used as an analgesic, antitussive, antidiarrheal, and antispasmodic.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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See Papaver-o. Colatum, Extractum opii-o. Depuratum, Extractum opii.
By Robley Dunglison
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The dried latex or capsular juice of Papaver somniferum, or poppy: narcotic and poisonous. It contains morphin, codein, and many other alkaloids.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Syn. : o. crudum, meconium. The inspissated juice of the unripe capsules of Papaver somniferum and its varieties. Besides water, resin, fatty matter, gum, caoutchouc, pectin, glucose, and other substances not yet definitely determined, o. contains numerous alkaloids, of which morphin, codein, narcotin, and narcein are used in medicine. These bases occur in combination with meconic and lactic acids. Two neutral principles, meconin and meconoisin, have also been isolated. O. is a narcotic, acting directly upon the cerebrum. It destroys life by paralyzing the respiratory centers in the medulla. O. is chiefly used for the relief of pain, but its diversity of properties gives it a wide range of usefulness. An unconquerable longing for o. or one of its alkaloids often leads to its habitual use, which causes anemia, emaciation, headache, vertigo, wakefulness, tremor, and mental disturbance [U. S. Ph. Br. Ph.]. List of poisons and their antidotes, see in appendix [Gr.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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