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Definitions for: Narcotic [n] a drug that produces numbness or stupor; often taken for pleasure or to reduce pain; extensive use can lead to addiction
[adj] inducing mental lethargy; "a narcotic speech"
[adj] inducing stupor or narcosis; "narcotic drugs"
[adj] of or relating to or designating narcotics; "narcotic addicts"; "narcotic stupor"
Webster (1913) Definition: Nar*cot"ic, a. [F. narcotique, Gr. ??????????, fr.
??????? to benumb, na`rkh numbness, torpor.] (Med.)
Having the properties of a narcotic; operating as a narcotic.
-- Nar*cot"ic*ness, n.
Nar*cot"ic, n. (Med.)
A drug which, in medicinal doses, generally allays morbid
susceptibility, relieves pain, and produces sleep; but which,
in poisonous doses, produces stupor, coma, or convulsions,
and, when given in sufficient quantity, causes death. The
best examples are opium (with morphine), belladonna (with
atropine), and conium.
Nercotykes and opye (opium) of Thebes. --Chaucer.
Synonyms: depressant, narcotising, narcotizing, soporiferous, soporific, uninteresting
See Also: codeine, deck, Demerol, dolophine hydrochloride, drug, fixer, hard drug, laudanum, meperidine, meperidine hydrochloride, methadon, methadone, methadone hydrochloride, morphia, morphine, opiate, opium, synthetic heroin, tincture of opium
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