English-Portuguese translations for morphine

• morfina
  Por outro lado, em minha opinião, devemos esclarecer a questão da existência de reservas suficientes para a produção de morfina. Besides, I think we must clarify the fact that there is already provision for morphine production.
  3. A produção de morfina em larga escala obrigaria a maior produção de drogas; estas, em última análise, iriam ao encontro da procura de drogas no mercado mundial. 3. large-scale legal production of morphine would lead to more drugs being produced; these would ultimately meet the demand for drugs on the world market.
  Acresce que associações médicas internacionais afirmam que continua a haver falta de morfina, não só na metade sul do globo mas, paradoxalmente, também no Norte. Furthermore, international medical associations are making plain that there is still a need for morphine today, not only in the South of the world, but paradoxically in the North too.

Definition of morphine

• A crystalline alkaloid , 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

Related words

• diacetylmorphine
• ethylmorphine
• apomorphine
• diamorphine
• paramorphine
• desomorphine
• morphine addict
• ethyl morphine