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What does morphine mean?

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  1. A crystalline alkaloid (7,8-didehydro-4,5-epoxy-17-methyl-morphinan-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.
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In fact, I now get requests to stop morphine because it is sedating the patient too much, even when the patient does have pain.
When the old man arrived back in Burnaby he had to wait two days, in traction and on morphine, for surgery on his leg.
Once the poppies have flowered, the seed heads are harvested and converted into morphine base in local laboratories.
Who knows what little games he played in his mind before it became befuddled by morphine?
She was given morphine and needed ventilation for her subsequent apnoea and to try to lower her pulmonary resistance to improve lung blood flow.
Despite high doses of intravenous morphine and ketamine, the pain was unbearable.

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