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Definition of Narcotic

1. Noun. A drug that produces numbness or stupor; often taken for pleasure or to reduce pain; extensive use can lead to addiction.

2. Adjective. Of or relating to or designating narcotics. "Narcotic stupor"

3. Adjective. Inducing stupor or narcosis. "Narcotic drugs"

4. Adjective. Inducing mental lethargy. "A narcotic speech"

Definition of Narcotic

1. a. Having the properties of a narcotic; operating as a narcotic.

2. n. A drug which, in medicinal doses, generally allays morbid susceptibility, relieves pain, and produces sleep; but which, in poisonous doses, produces stupor, coma, or convulsions, and, when given in sufficient quantity, causes death. The best examples are opium (with morphine), belladonna (with atropine), and conium.

Definition of Narcotic

1. a drug that dulls the senses [n -S]

Medical Definition of Narcotic

1. 1. Pertaining to or producing narcosis. 2. An agent that produces insensibility or stupor, applied especially to the opioids, i.e. To any natural or synthetic drug that has morphine like actions. Origin: Gr. Narkotikos = benumbing, deadening This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Narcotic

narcoleptic narcoleptics narcoleptic tetrad narcoma narcomas narcomata narcos narcose narcoses narcosis

narcosis narcosynthesis narcoterrorism narcotherapy narcotic (current term) narcotic (current term) narcotically narcotics narcotics narcotics agent

narcotic analgesics narcotic analgesic agent narcotic antagonist narcotic antagonists narcotic blockade narcotic hunger narcotic reversal narcotine narcotise narcotised

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