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narcotism
[ nahr-kuh-tiz-uhm ]
narcotism
/ ˈɑːəˌɪə /
noun
- stupor or addiction induced by narcotic drugs
Other Word Forms
- Բc·پ noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of narcotism1
Example Sentences
Slowness, in marked degree, attends apoplexy, opium narcotism, and fracture of the skull compressing the brain.
How does a patient breathe when moribund from simple exhaustion, and how does such respiration differ from the toil and struggle of asthma or the stertor of narcotism?
Stertorous respiration is familiar in apoplectic coma, as well as in that of brain compression from injury or from opium or alcoholic narcotism.
Coma, or stupor, is met with chiefly in the following morbid states: severe typhus or typhoid fevers; malignant scarlet fever; small-pox; rarely in measles; pernicious malarial fever; ur�mia; apoplexy; opiate narcotism, or that from chloral or alcoholic intoxication; asphyxia from inhaling carbonic acid gas, ether, chloroform, etc.; fracture of the skull with compression of the brain.
When the vomiting and purging begin to subside and reaction is about to commence, small and repeated doses of opiates undoubtedly tend to lessen the evacuations; but great caution must be observed not to exceed the due degree of stimulation, lest a dangerous state of narcotism or collapse be induced.
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