Definition of opium

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Opium (n.) The inspissated juice of the Papaver somniferum, or white poppy..

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Chlorodyne :: Chlorodyne (n.) A patent anodyne medicine, containing opium, chloroform, Indian hemp, etc..
Protopine :: Protopine (n.) An alkaloid found in opium in small quantities, and extracted as a white crystalline substance..
Maslach :: Maslach (n.) An excitant containing opium, much used by the Turks..
Laudanum :: Laudanum (n.) Tincture of opium, used for various medical purposes..
Mawseed :: Mawseed (n.) The seed of the opium poppy.
Denarcotize :: Denarcotize (v. t.) To deprive of narcotine; as, to denarcotize opium..
Dover's Powder :: Dover's Powder () 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..
Narceine :: Narceine (n.) An alkaloid found in small quantities in opium, and extracted as a white crystalline substance of a bitter astringent taste. It is a narcotic. Called also narceia..
Papaverine :: Papaverine (n.) An alkaloid found in opium. It has a weaker therapeutic action than morphine.
Toxicant :: Toxicant (n.) A poisonous agent or drug, as opium; an intoxicant..
Opiate :: Opiate (n.) Any medicine that contains opium, and has the quality of inducing sleep or repose; a narcotic..
Opie :: Opie (n.) Opium.
Chest :: Chest (n.) A case in which certain goods, as tea, opium, etc., are transported; hence, the quantity which such a case contains..
Meconium :: Meconium (n.) Opium.
Opiate :: Opiate (n.) Originally, a medicine of a thicker consistence than sirup, prepared with opium..
Lanthopine :: Lanthopine (n.) An alkaloid found in opium in small quantities, and extracted as a white crystalline substance..
Dormitive :: Dormitive (a.) Causing sleep; as, the dormitive properties of opium..
Meconic :: Meconic (a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, the poppy or opium; specif. (Chem.), designating an acid related to aconitic acid, found in opium and extracted as a white crystalline substance..
Paper :: Paper (n.) A paper containing (usually) a definite quantity; as, a paper of pins, tacks, opium, etc..
Intoxicant :: Intoxicant (n.) That which intoxicates; an intoxicating agent; as, alcohol, opium, and laughing gas are intoxicants..
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