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Morphine is a very strong medicine for pain. It can also make a person calmer, sleepy, and a little distant from what hurts. Doctors use it after big operations, for cancer pain, and in other serious cases. It comes from the poppy, in the same family of drugs as and heroin, though morphine is a legal medicine when a doctor gives it. It is addictive: the body can start needing it, and stopping suddenly is hard and unpleasant. That is why it is tightly controlled. In ordinary talk it is a hospital word, slightly heavy and clinical. People do not use it for a headache tablet. Though actually, the name is not about “shape” in the medical sense. It was named after , the god of dreams, because the drug pulls you down into a deep, dreamy sleep.
From the word’s history
From French morphine or German Morphin, from Ancient Greek Μορφεύς, the god of dreams.
借自法文或德文，來自希臘神話的夢神 Μορφεύς（Morpheus）。
組成Borrowed from French morphine or German Morphin, from Greek Morpheús — Morpheus, the god of dreams.
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以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
morphinenoun/ˈmɔː.fiːn/
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biochemistrybiologychemistryA crystalline alkaloid (4,5-epoxy-17-methyl-7,8-didehydromorphinan-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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