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What does papaverine mean?

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  1. A non-addictive derivative of opium used in medicine to relieve muscle spasms, as a vasodilator and in some forms of erectile dysfunction.
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It was less active than atropine against the intestinal spasmogenic effect of methacholine, but more active than papaverine against other spasmogens such as barium or prostigmine in mice, rats and rabbits.
This effect was more pronounced with trimebutine maleate than with metoclopramide, while papaverine had a depressant effect.
Gastric emptying time and intestinal propulsion were affected much less than by papaverine.
Drugs such as papaverine hydrochloride, phentolamine, and alprostadil widen blood vessels.
But ask your doctor about an injection that's a cocktail of generic forms of alprostadil, papaverine and phentolamine.
In the early 19th century opium extract was found to contain more than 20 distinct complex organic bases, called alkaloids, of which morphine, codeine, and papaverine are the most important.

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