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morphia

American  
[mawr-fee-uh] / ˈmɔr fi ə /

noun

  1. Pharmacology. an uncommon variant of morphine.


Example Sentences

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Carrington lived for half a day in what must have been awful pain, apologising to her aghast friends through a haze of morphia.

From The Guardian • Sep. 2, 2010

However, the action of both heart and lungs improved, and Van Helsing made a subcutaneous injection of morphia, as before, and with good effect.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

But even morphia could not fully dull the horror of this event.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

Mr. Weale's article was published in 1919, in which he speaks of an importation of about twenty tons of morphia.

From The Opium Monopoly by La Motte, Ellen Newbold

I will—or I pray—that he shall lie still without morphia, and that he shall have no pain.

From A Journal of Impressions in Belgium by Sinclair, May