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

Dormitive :: Dormitive (a.) Causing sleep; as, the dormitive properties of opium..

Marsupium :: Marsupium (n.) The pouch, formed by a fold of the skin of the abdomen, in which marsupials carry their young; also, a pouch for similar use in other animals, as certain Crustacea..

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

Meconidine :: Meconidine (n.) An alkaloid found in opium, and extracted as a yellow amorphous substance which is easily decomposed..

Gossypium :: Gossypium (n.) A genus of plants which yield the cotton of the arts. The species are much confused. G. herbaceum is the name given to the common cotton plant, while the long-stapled sea-island cotton is produced by G. Barbadense, a shrubby variety. There are several other kinds besides these..

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

Lanthopine :: Lanthopine (n.) An alkaloid found in opium in small quantities, and extracted as a white crystalline substance..

Denarcotize :: Denarcotize (v. t.) To deprive of narcotine; as, to denarcotize opium..

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

Protopine :: Protopine (n.) An alkaloid found in opium in small quantities, and extracted as a white crystalline substance..

Bindweed :: Bindweed (n.) A plant of the genus Convolvulus; as, greater bindweed (C. Sepium); lesser bindweed (C. arvensis); the white, the blue, the Syrian, bindweed. The black bryony, or Tamus, is called black bindweed, and the Smilax aspera, rough bindweed..

Opye :: Opye (n.) Opium.

Narcotic :: Narcotic (n.) A drug which, in medicinal doses, generally allays morbid susceptibility, relieves pain, and produces sleep; but which, in poisonous doses, produces stupor, coma, or convulsions, and, when given in sufficient quantity, causes death. The best examples are opium (with morphine), belladonna (with atropine), and conium..

Aesculapian :: Aesculapian (a.) Pertaining to Aesculapius or to the healing art; medical; medicinal.

Marsupium :: Marsupium (n.) The pecten in the eye of birds and reptiles. See Pecten.

Laudanine :: Laudanine (n.) A white organic base, resembling morphine, and obtained from certain varieties of opium..

Pelopium :: Pelopium (n.) A supposed new metal found in columbite, afterwards shown to be identical with columbium, or niobium..

Myotic :: Myotic (a.) Producing myosis, or contraction of the pupil of the eye, as opium, calabar bean, etc..

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

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