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A bitter white crystalline alkaloid found in opium, possessing strong narcotic properties, and much used as an anodyne; -- called also morphia, and morphina.

A crystalline alkaloid obtained from morphia. It is a powerful emetic.

An alkaloid, , prepared from codeine. In its effects it resembles apomorphine.

ids; a white crystalline substance, C18H21NO3, similar to and regarded as a derivative of morphine, but much feebler in its action; -- called also codeia.

water into a condenser; to inject a medicinal liquid into a cavity of the body; to inject morphine with a hypodermic syringe.

A white organic base, resembling morphine, and obtained from certain varieties of opium.

Morphine.

A morbid condition produced by the excessive or prolonged use of morphine.

, and, when given in sufficient quantity, causes death. The best examples are opium (with morphine), belladonna (with atropine), and conium. Nercotykes and opye (opium) of Thebes. Chaucer.

opium, and extracted as a white crystalline substance, tasteless and less poisonous than morphine; -- called also narcotia.

An alkaloid found in opium. It has a weaker therapeutic action than morphine.

animal organism, is capable of producing a morbid, noxious, or deadly effect upon it; as, morphine is a deadly poison; the poison of pestilential diseases.