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The inspissated juice of the Papaver somniferum, or white poppy.

Same as Ectropion.

The inversion or turning in of the border of the eyelids.

A metallic element of the rare-earth group, discovered spectroscopically by Demarcay in 1896. Symbol, Eu; at. wt., 152.0.

A supposed new metal found in columbite, afterwards shown to be identical with columbium, or niobium.

An extract or preparation of opium, used in China and India for smoking. Balfour.

A case in which certain goods, as tea, opium, etc., are transported; hence, the quantity which such a case contains.

A patent anodyne medicine, containing opium, chloroform, Indian hemp, etc.

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

A colorless crystalline alkaloid obtained in small quantities from opium.

To deprive of narcotine; as, to denarcotize opium. -- De*nar`co*ti*za"tion, n.

Any thick liquid or pasty preparation, as of opium for medicinal purposes, of grease for a lubricant, etc.

Causing sleep; as, the dormitive properties of opium. Clarke. -- n. (Med.)

A powder of ipecac and opium, compounded, in the United States, with sugar of milk, but in England (as formerly in the United States) with sulphate of potash, and in France (as in Dr. Dover's original prescription) with nitrate and sulphate of potash and licorice. It is an anodyne diaphoretic.

Same as Entropium.

The state of being turned back or outward; as, eversion of eyelids; ectropium.

An alkaloid existing in small quantities in opium.

A plant of the genus Heliotropium; -- called also turnsole and girasole. H. Peruvianum is the commonly cultivated species with fragrant flowers.

Anything that intoxicates, as opium, alcohol, etc.; an intoxicant. Smart.

That which intoxicates; an intoxicating agent; as, alcohol, opium, and laughing gas are intoxicants.