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morphine

noun as in opium

noun as in painkiller

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The typical acidity level of the average person’s body provides ideal conditions for morphine and fentanyl to become positively charged.

My colleagues and I have recently extended this framework to morphine.

I’m a physical chemist interested in this problem, and my research group used computational chemistry to investigate how opioids like morphine can be redesigned to target specific pain regions without affecting the brain.

The Medical Examiner’s Office reports a more than 200 percent year-over-year spike in accidental deaths from fentanyl, an opioid painkiller that is 100 times more powerful than morphine, across San Diego County.

Most resulted in small fines and brief suspension, though that one from 1977, for morphine, landed Baffert a one-year ban.

All the junkies try to transfer to them, for the abundance of morphine.

Strong pain medications such as morphine and ketamine did not help.

The effects of the morphine “could take four hours, it could take 12 hours.”

The Queen's bloodstock adviser indicated in a statement that this is the suspected source of the morphine.

Once he got accustomed to his morphine dosages, his feelings of guilt kept him from falling asleep.

As soon as it was light they sent Jim for Dr. Basset, and he gave her a strong dose of morphine.

The morphine is separated from the same solution by shaking out with warm chloroform.

His brother told the young medical student in charge what the doctor had said about the morphine.

The doctors were summoned, and it was only after repeated injections of morphine that the pain had been eased.

We grow tall, we De Willoughbys, we have black eyes, we drink and we make ourselves insane with morphine.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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