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UK
/kˈəʊdaɪn/
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NOUN
- derivative of opium; used as an antitussive (to relieve coughing) and an analgesic (to relieve pain)
How To Use codeine In A Sentence
- What do aspirin, codeine, ipecac, reserpine, scopolamine, theophylline, and vinblastine have in common?
- I drove home ashen-faced, where I took a bunch of codeine and paced around the house waiting for it to work.
- Codeine is a stronger pain killer that is sometimes combined with paracetamol or used alone if other pain killers are not suitable.
- You should take warm baths and take painkillers if necessary, but avoid painkillers containing codeine as these often have side effects.
- The question of interest is not so much whether they are potent analgesics compared with codeine but, rather, which painful conditions they are effective in.
- In a further study by the same group oral THC 10 mg was found to be about equipotent to codeine 60 mg, and THC 20 mg was about equipotent to codeine 120 mg.
- He begged for a painkiller, and Martha drove twenty miles to the nearest doctor to get a prescription for codeine.
- Injecting salutaridine yielded a five-ringed opiate called thebaine, and injecting thebaine generated three similarly structured opiates: codeine, oripavine and morphine. Scientific American
- In fact, some 'loads' abusers have ingested up to 12 grams of glutethimide and greater than 2.5 grams of codeine (often in combination with acetaminophen or aspirin) on adaily basis. 5 Complications from chronic abuse should also be considered. Loads
- Examples include the analgesics morphine and codeine, the antibiotic sanguinarine, the gout suppressant colchicine, and the muscle relaxant (+) tubocurarine.