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Cryptopine :: Cryptopine (n.) A colorless crystalline alkaloid obtained in small quantities from opium.

Meconin :: Meconin (n.) A substance regarded as an anhydride of meconinic acid, existing in opium and extracted as a white crystalline substance. Also erroneously called meconina, meconia, etc., as though it were an alkaloid..

Chlorodyne :: Chlorodyne (n.) A patent anodyne medicine, containing opium, chloroform, Indian hemp, etc..

Meconinic :: Meconinic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid which occurs in opium, and which may be obtained by oxidizing narcotine..

Narcotine :: Narcotine (n.) An alkaloid found in opium, and extracted as a white crystalline substance, tasteless and less poisonous than morphine; -- called also narcotia..

Papaverine :: Papaverine (n.) An alkaloid found in opium. It has a weaker therapeutic action than morphine.

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

Gnoscopine :: Gnoscopine (n.) An alkaloid existing in small quantities in opium.

Meconium :: Meconium (n.) Opium.

Maslach :: Maslach (n.) An excitant containing opium, much used by the Turks..

Thebaine :: Thebaine (n.) A poisonous alkaloid, C19H21NO3, found in opium in small quantities, having a sharp, astringent taste, and a tetanic action resembling that of strychnine..

Entropium :: Entropium (n.) The inversion or turning in of the border of the eyelids.

Lanthopine :: Lanthopine (n.) An alkaloid found in opium in small quantities, 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..

Paregoric :: Paregoric (n.) A medicine that mitigates pain; an anodyne; specifically, camphorated tincture of opium; -- called also paregoric elexir..

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

Turnsole :: Turnsole (a.) A plant of the genus Heliotropium; heliotrope; -- so named because its flowers are supposed to turn toward the sun.

Intoxicant :: Intoxicant (n.) That which intoxicates; an intoxicating agent; as, alcohol, opium, and laughing gas are intoxicants..

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..

Opiate :: Opiate (n.) Originally, a medicine of a thicker consistence than sirup, prepared with opium..

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