Opiates - English meaning

noun

A substance that induces insensitivity to pain.

Usage examples:

Supplements that have the potential to cause major complications in perioperative patients are thos…

adjective

Inducing or relating to insensitivity to pain.

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Anaesthetic drugs and gases

noun

A substance that makes you unable to feel pain

Usage examples:

The operation is performed under anaesthetic., the procedure is carried out under local anaesthetic…

adjective

(of a drug) acting to relieve pain.

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The regular intake of three or more analgesic tablets daily or narcotics or ergotamine on more than…

noun

An analgesic drug.

Usage examples:

Opioid analgesics or morphine-based drugs form the cornerstone of burn pain treatment.

adjective

Not likely to cause offence or disagreement and somewhat dull.

Usage examples:

Anodyne music

noun

A painkilling drug or medicine.

Usage examples:

She had even refused anodynes

noun

Any of a class of sedative and sleep-inducing drugs derived from barbituric acid.

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Drugs for which subjects were tested included cocaine, opiates, marijuana, phencyclidine, benzodiaz…

noun

A strong medicine that makes people calm or helps them sleep

noun

A compound of bromine with another element or group, especially a salt containing the anion br− or an organic compound with bromine bonded to an alkyl radical.

noun

A drug used to calm people who are very unhappy or worried

Usage examples:

He took a/some bromide to calm his nerves.

adjective

(of a drug) having a sedative effect.

Usage examples:

It has developed a range of weapons capable of delivering calmative chemicals, including specialize…

noun

A calmative drug.

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This is just what is depicted in the various scenarios envisioned by military planners laying out a…

adjective

(chiefly of a drug) reducing functional or nervous activity.

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It is also necessary to exclude reversible causes of failure of brain function, including depressan…

noun

A depressant drug.

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Phenothiazines, tricyclic antidepressants, and cns depressants may potentiate the therapeutic and a…

noun

A substance that causes you to feel sad or calm

noun

A medicine or other substance which has a physiological effect when ingested or otherwise introduced into the body.

Usage examples:

A new drug aimed at sufferers from parkinson's disease

verb

Administer a drug to (someone) in order to induce stupor or insensibility.

Usage examples:

They were drugged to keep them quiet

verb

A substance that is used as a medicine or narcotic

noun

An alcoholic solution containing morphine, prepared from opium and formerly used as a narcotic painkiller.

Usage examples:

Doctors would give babies phenobarbital for colic and laudanum (a form of opium) for teething.

noun

An analgesic and narcotic drug obtained from opium and used medicinally to relieve pain.

Usage examples:

It is therefore in the same category of painkillers as morphine and codeine.

noun

A drug used medically to stop people from feeling pain

noun

A drug or other substance that affects mood or behaviour and is consumed for non-medical purposes, especially one sold illegally.

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Cultivation of a plant used to make a popular local narcotic

adjective

Relating to or denoting narcotics or illegal drugs.

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Consumption of narcotic substances

noun

A type of drug that causes sleep and that is used medically to reduce the strength of pain, and that in some forms is also used illegally

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Narcotic painkillers

noun

A reddish-brown heavy-scented addictive drug prepared from the juice of the opium poppy, used illicitly as a narcotic and occasionally in medicine as an analgesic.

Usage examples:

He was addicted to opium

noun

A drug or a medicine for relieving pain.

Usage examples:

Over-the-counter painkiller or anti-inflammatory medicine such as ibuprofen should reduce pain and …

noun

A pill or other medicine used to reduce or remove physical pain

adjective

Promoting calm or inducing sleep.

Usage examples:

The seeds have a sedative effect

noun

A drug taken for its calming or sleep-inducing effect.

Usage examples:

She won't let them give her sedatives because of the baby

adjective

Tending to induce drowsiness or sleep.

Usage examples:

The motion of the train had a somewhat soporific effect

noun

A drug or other substance that induces drowsiness or sleep.

Usage examples:

The meal was light - perhaps eggs and a posset (hot milk fortified with sugar, spices, eggs, and wi…

adjective

Causing sleep or making a person want to sleep

Usage examples:

The soporific effect of the heat

noun

A medicinal drug taken to reduce tension or anxiety.

Usage examples:

Medications prescribed most frequently for this population are psychoactive drugs such as sleeping …

noun

A drug used to make a person or animal calmer

Usage examples:

She was on tranquillizers for a long time after her son died.