| 单词 | morphine |
| 释义 | morphine From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishDrugs, medicinesmorphinemor‧phine /ˈmɔːfiːn $ ˈmɔːr-/ noun [uncountable]MDa powerful and addictive drug used for stopping pain and making people calmerExamples from the Corpusmorphine• It was he who had given Billy morphine.• In contrast, morphine can be deadly if a little too much is taken.• The hypothesis that paradoxical pain is caused by abnormal metabolism of morphine is plausible but built on shaky foundations.• Furthermore, large interspecies variations exist not only in the metabolism of morphine but also in the distribution of opioid receptors.• She drifted off again, back to her private morphine place.• We have also known for a long time that morphine cures diarrhoea.• Besides which, a blood test would show up all the morphine in his body.Origin morphine (1800-1900) French Morpheus; → MORPHIA |
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