morphia

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   morphine, especially under its older medical name

   The physician administered an injection of morphia to ease the patient's pain.

From New Latin Morphia, based on Morpheus, the Greek god of dreams, in reference to the drug's sleep-inducing effects. Attested in English from the early nineteenth century, morphia became an older, especially British, name for morphine.

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