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单词 morphiomania
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morphiomanian.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a German lexical item. Etymons: morphia n., morphine n., morphium n., -o- connective, -mania comb. form.
Etymology: < morphi- (in morphia n., morphine n., or morphium n.) + -o- connective + -mania comb. form, after German Morphiumsucht (E. Levinstein 1875 in Berliner Klin. Wochenschr. 29 Nov. 646/1).French morphiomanie (1876) is probably < the English word. N.E.D. (1908) gives the pronunciation as (mǭ:ɹfiomēi·niă) /ˌmɔːfɪəʊˈmeɪnɪə/.
Obsolete.
= morphinomania n.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > drug addiction or craving > [noun] > to or for specific drug
opiomania1868
morphiomania1876
etheromania1883
etherism1887
morphinomania1887
heroin addiction1903
1876 tr. E. Levinstein in London Med. Rec. 15 Feb. 55/2 Allow me to direct your attention to a disease for which I can find no more appropriate name than morphiomania (Morphiumsucht).
1882 Nature 7 Sept. 470/1 Dr. Landowsky..deprecated..this new method of intoxication; he calls it morphiomania or morphinism.
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 893 Except on withdrawal of the drug I have not seen the excitement or violence to which the name morphiomania would be properly applied.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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