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<pharmacology> A remedy containing or derived from opium, also any drug that induces sleep.
Naturally occuring basic (alkaloid) molecules with a complex fused ring structure. Have high pharmacological activity.
See: morphine.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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