Morphine is an English word with synonyms like morphia or opiate. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Morphine meaning
A crystalline alkaloid (4,5-epoxy-17-methyl-7,8-didehydromorphinan-3,6-diol), extracted from opium, the salts of which are soluble in water and are used as analgesics, anaesthetics and sedatives; it is one of a group of morphine alkaloids.
Synonyms of Morphine
Using Morphine
- The main meaning on this page is: A crystalline alkaloid (4,5-epoxy-17-methyl-7,8-didehydromorphinan-3,6-diol), extracted from opium, the salts of which are soluble in water and are used as analgesics, anaesthetics and sedatives; it is one of a group of morphine alkaloids.
- Useful related words include: morphia, opiate, analgesic, anodyne.
- In the example corpus, morphine often appears in combinations such as: of morphine, morphine and, morphine is.
Context around Morphine
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 9 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Morphine
- In this selection, "morphine" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, illicit, opioids, anhydrous, alkaloid, now and diacetate stand out and add context to how "morphine" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and the morphine allan says and as a morphine substitute for. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "morphine" sits close to words such as accumulating, augment and bala, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with morphine
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Reinforcement disorders Addiction Before the Morphine by Santiago Rusiñol Morphine is a highly addictive substance. (15 words)
Alex, meanwhile, began “struggling to stay on top of the drugs and painkillers and the morphine,” Allan says. (18 words)
Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid more powerful than morphine that is often mixed with other substances by drug dealers. (19 words)
Long after the physical need for morphine has passed, the addict will usually continue to think and talk about the use of morphine (or other drugs) and feel strange or overwhelmed coping with daily activities without being under the influence of morphine. (42 words)
Closely related to morphine are the opioids morphine-N-oxide (genomorphine), which is a pharmaceutical that is no longer in common use; and pseudomorphine, an alkaloid that exists in opium, form as degradation products of morphine. (36 words)
Most semi-synthetic opioids, both of the morphine and codeine subgroups, are created by modifying one or more of the following: * Halogenating or making other modifications at positions 1 or 2 on the morphine carbon skeleton. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
Closely related to morphine are the opioids morphine-N-oxide (genomorphine), which is a pharmaceutical that is no longer in common use; and pseudomorphine, an alkaloid that exists in opium, form as degradation products of morphine.
He boiled anhydrous morphine alkaloid with acetic anhydride for several hours and produced a more potent, acetylated form of morphine, now called diacetylmorphine or morphine diacetate.
Long after the physical need for morphine has passed, the addict will usually continue to think and talk about the use of morphine (or other drugs) and feel strange or overwhelmed coping with daily activities without being under the influence of morphine.
Morphine is metabolized primarily into morphine-3-glucuronide (M3G) and morphine-6-glucuronide (M6G) citation via glucuronidation by phase II metabolism enzyme UDP-glucuronosyl transferase-2B7 (UGT2B7).
This demethylation reaction is often performed using pyridine and hydrochloric acid. citation Another source of illicit morphine comes from the extraction of morphine from extended-release morphine products, such as MS-Contin.
In the late 19th century, Civil War veterans were extensively treated with morphine, Coca-Cola contained cocaine, and parents gave teething babies morphine-laced patent medicines like Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup.
The increase in hypocretin cells lasted for as long as four weeks after discontinuation of the morphine treatment, well after morphine had left the animals’ bodies.
Doctors frequently prescribed morphine to women in those years to treat a variety of causes, and researchers believe that some of her symptoms sounded as if they were associated with morphine poisoning.
Instead, the experiment produced an acetylated form of morphine one and a half to two times more potent than morphine itself.
It was developed chiefly as a morphine substitute for cough suppressants that did not have morphine's addictive side-effects.
Morphine meconate is a major form of the alkaloid in the poppy, as is morphine pectinate, nitrate, sulphate, and some others.
Most semi-synthetic opioids, both of the morphine and codeine subgroups, are created by modifying one or more of the following: * Halogenating or making other modifications at positions 1 or 2 on the morphine carbon skeleton.
Reinforcement disorders Addiction Before the Morphine by Santiago Rusiñol Morphine is a highly addictive substance.
Replacement of the N-methyl group of morphine with an N-phenylethyl group results in a product that is 18 times more powerful than morphine in its opiate agonist potency.
Some testing procedures hydrolyze metabolic products into morphine before the immunoassay, which must be considered when comparing morphine levels in separately published results.
Thus, heroin may be thought of as a more rapidly acting form of morphine. citation Illicit Illicit morphine is rarely produced from codeine found in over-the-counter cough and pain medicines.
Alex, meanwhile, began “struggling to stay on top of the drugs and painkillers and the morphine,” Allan says.
Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid more powerful than morphine that is often mixed with other substances by drug dealers.
I discussed all these issues with the young doctor, and in the end he gave me a prescription for morphine.
Janice says the pain from her knee is "very tiring and wakes her up in the night" despite morphine and other painkillers.
Common combinations with morphine
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of morphine 34×
- morphine and 29×
- morphine is 15×
- than morphine 14×
- and morphine 14×
- to morphine 12×
- the morphine 9×
- morphine has 6×
- with morphine 6×
- morphine to 6×