Definitions for codeine

codeine co·deine

Spelling: [koh-deen]
IPA: /ˈkoʊ din/

Codeine is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 141 anagrams from letters in codeine (cdeeino).

Definitions for codeine

noun

  1. a white, crystalline, slightly bitter alkaloid, C 18 H 21 NO 3 , obtained from opium, used in medicine chiefly as an analgesic or sedative and to inhibit coughing.

Origin of codeine

1830-40; Greek kṓde(ia) head, poppy-head + -ine2

Examples for codeine

Lil Wayne once said that quitting sizzurp—cough syrup laced with codeine—‘feels like death in your stomach.’

codeine should not have been prescribed for these patients because its metabolism in children varies widely from person to person.

codeine gives the same reaction, but no other of the alkaloids.

Other salts of codeine are not described because used substantially as the above.

Commercial morphia and its preparations are often contaminated with codeine, narcotine, and colouring matter.

The Demerol, the vicodin, the percocet, codeine, the cocaine, the Jack Daniels, the wine.

Because of the wide variability in codeine metabolism, its use as a cough suppressant is not recommended.

Its meythl ester, which can be formed from it, is codeine, one of the accompanying alkaloids of opium.

“Junk,” we learn, refers to opium and its derivatives: morphine, heroin, pantopon, Dilaudid, codeine.

Morphine and codeine are believed alone to give this reaction.

Word Value for codeine
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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