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Morphine

"Morphine" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The principal alkaloid in opium and the prototype opiate analgesic and narcotic. Morphine has widespread effects in the central nervous system and on smooth muscle.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Morphine" by people in this website by year, and whether "Morphine" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 46 publications over 21 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2013
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