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Definition: Morphine |
MorphineNoun1. An alkaloid narcotic drug extracted from opium; a powerful, habit-forming narcotic used to relieve pain. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "morphine" was first used: 1828. (references) |
Etymology: Morphine \Mor"phine\, noun. [From Morpheus: compare to the French expression morphine.]. (references) |
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Health | The principal alkaloid in opium and the prototype opiate analgesic and narcotic. Morphine has widespread effects in the central nervous system and on smooth muscle. (references) |
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Morphine (C17H19NO3) is a powerful analgesic narcotic drug found in opium. Like other opiates, morphine acts directly on the central nervous system (CNS) to relieve pain, and at synapses of the arcuate nucleus, in particular. Side effects include impairment of mental performance, euphoria, drowsiness, lethargy, and blurred vision. It also decreases hunger, inhibits the cough reflex, and produces constipation. Morphine is highly addictive. Tolerance and physical and psychological dependence develop quickly.
Morphine is frequently found in various preparations. Parenterally, it is given as subcutaneous, intravenous or epidural injections. The military sometimes issues morphine loaded in an autoinjector. Orally, it comes as an elixir or in tablet form. Morphine is rarely in suppository form.
Morphine is indicated in:
It was first isolated in 1803 by the German pharmacist Friedrich Wilhelm Adam Serturner, who named it 'morphium' after Morpheus, the Greek god of dreams. But it was not until the development of the hypodermic syringe (1853) that its use spread. It was used for pain relief and, ironically, as a 'cure' for opium or alcohol addiction. Its extensive use during the American Civil War resulted in over 400,000 sufferers from the 'soldiers disease' (addiction).
- relief of acute, severe pain
- pain after surgery
- pain associated with trauma
- relief of moderate to severe chronic pain
- cancer pain
- as an adjunct to general anesthesia
- in epidural anesthesia
Heroin was derived from morphine in 1874. Along with other drugs, its possession without a prescription was criminalised in the US by the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act of 1914.
There is an early 1990s rock band named Morphine.
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Morphine was an early 1990s cult band, an indie rock group that released their debut, Good in 1991. The album received positive reviews and established a small but devoted audience. Their next album was Cure for Pain, which achieved some mainstream listeners, as did the follow-up, Yes.In 1996, Morphine signed to Dreamworks Records and released their major label debut, Like Swimming; the album was a critical success but did not break the band into the mainstream as had been hoped. Frontman Mark Sandman died of a heart attack during a performance in Rome in 1999.
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Synonym: MorphineSynonym: morphia (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Intemperance | Bhang, hashish, marijuana, pot, hemp, grass; opium, cocaine, morphine, heroin; LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide; phencyclidine, angel dust, PCP; barbiturates; amphetamines, speed. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Morphine |
| English words defined with "morphine": apomorphine ♦ diacetylmorphine ♦ H, heroin, horse ♦ junk ♦ Laudanine, levallorphan, Lorfan ♦ methadon, methadone, methadone hydrochloride, Morphinism ♦ Nalline, nalorphine, naloxone, Narcan, Narcotine ♦ pentazocine ♦ scag, smack ♦ Talwin, twilight sleep. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "morphine": Benzomorphans, Buprenorphine ♦ Diphenoxylate ♦ Morphine Dependence, Morphine Derivatives, morphinomimetic ♦ Phenoperidine ♦ Receptors, Opioid, mu. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Morphine" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (morphia, morphine). |
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Screenplays | In them you'll find: one .45 caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days concentrated emergency raisons; one drug issue containing: antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase book and bible; one hundred dollars in rubles; one hundred dollars in gold; nine packs of chewing gum; one issue of prophylactics; three lipsticks; three pair a nylon stockings (Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern and Peter George. Based on the novel 'Red Alert, aka Two Hours to Doom' by Peter George.) | |
Lyrics | I can't stay on your morphine, cuz its making me (Just Like A Pill; performing artist: Pink) Morphine city slippin' dues down to see (1979; performing artist: Smashing Pumpkins) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Morphine and Dolly Mixtures (1990) | |
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Health | They include codeine and perhaps the most well-known narcotic of all, morphine. (references) | |
In the brain, heroin is converted to morphine and binds rapidly to opioid receptors. (references) | ||
When the animals were treated with morphine, however, they were able to avoid this reaction to stress. (references) | ||
Business | Key among them is a low reimbursement rate for HIT equipment under Japan's nationalized health insurance system, as well as regulations that make use of certain drugs in the home settings difficult (i.e., painkillers such as morphine). (references) | |
Trade | El Salvador | G. Opium with less than nine % morphine, scraps and opium ash, and any material used for smoking those products. (references) |
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| "Morphine" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 86.47% of the time. "Morphine" is used about 133 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 86.47% | 115 | 30,138 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 6.77% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 4.51% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.26% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 133 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "morphine": diacetyl morphine ♦ morphine addict ♦ morphine base ♦ Morphine Dependence ♦ Morphine Derivatives ♦ morphine methyl ether ♦ Morphine Sulfate. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "morphine": morphine-like, morphine-requiring. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "morphine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | morfinë (morphia). (various references) | |
Arabic | مورفين, مادة مخدرة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | морфия, морфин. (various references) | |
Chinese | 嗎 , 吗啡. (various references) | |
Czech | morfium. (various references) | |
Danish | morfin (morphia). (various references) | |
Dutch | morfine (morphia). (various references) | |
Esperanto | morfino (morphia). (various references) | |
Finnish | morfiini (morphia). (various references) | |
French | morphine (morphia). (various references) | |
German | Morphium (morphia), Morphin (morphia). (various references) | |
Greek | μορφίνη (morphia). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מורפין, מורפיום. (various references) | |
Hungarian | morfium (morphia), morfin (morphia). (various references) | |
Italian | morfina (morphia). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | モリブデン酸アンモニウ (ammonium molybdate, guinea pig, malt, malt whisky, marmotte, Moldavia, molybdenium, morgue, mortar). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | モル'ネ . (various references) | |
Korean | 모르핀. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | orphinemay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | morfina (morphia). (various references) | |
Romanian | morfinã (dope, morphia). (various references) | |
Russian | морфий (morphia). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | morfin. (various references) | |
Spanish | morfina (morphia). (various references) | |
Swedish | morfin (morphia). (various references) | |
Turkish | morfin (morphia). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | морфій (morphia). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | morphe. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "morphine": morphines. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "morphine": apomorphine. (additional references) | |
Words containing "morphine": apomorphines. (additional references) | |
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"Morphine" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Jorghino, mephile, Mirghani, Morhange, morphene, morphin, Morphinae, morphite, morphize, Murphies. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "morphine" (pronounced 'Mor"phine'): Phosphine, Sulphine. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-i-m-n-o-p-r" | |
-1 letter: morphin, phonier, promine. | |
-2 letters: ephori, heroin, homier, impone, menhir, merino, mopier, orpine, phenom. | |
-3 letters: enorm, ephor, hemin, heron, homer, honer, hoper, irone, miner, minor, moire, monie, moper, morph, opine, orpin, phone, prime, primo, prion, proem, prone, repin, rhino, ripen. | |
-4 letters: emir, heir, hemp, herm, hern, hero, hire, hoer, home, hone, hope, horn, inro, iron. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-i-m-n-o-p-r" | |
+1 letter: morphines, premonish. | |
+2 letters: mentorship, microphone, prehominid. | |
+3 letters: apomorphine, endomorphic, foremanship, hemoprotein, homeporting, mentorships, mesonephric, mesonephroi, metanephroi, microphones, misanthrope, morphogenic, prehominids, premonished, premonishes, semaphoring. | |
+4 letters: apomorphines, consumership, enantiomorph, endomorphies, endomorphism, foremanships, hemoproteins, horsemanship, misanthropes, necrophilism, nomographies, perionychium, premonishing. | |
+5 letters: chemisorption, chromoprotein, cinematograph, commandership, comprehending, comprehension, comprehensive, consumerships, enantiomorphs, endomorphisms, horsemanships, hyperromantic, immunotherapy, impoverishing, mimeographing, misanthropies, monomorphemic, morphogenesis, morphogenetic, necrophilisms, nephelometric, nephrectomies, nephrectomize, nonmembership, perichondrium. | |
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