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papaverine

noun as in opium

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During a shortage of papaverine, a drug used for surgery on blood vessels, the clinic produced its own version.

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Street heroin contains papaverine, a remnant of the opium poppy that can be detected in the urine.

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White Poppy capsules, when dried, furnish papaverine and narcotine, with some mucilage, and a little waxy matter.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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