Associations to the word «Opioid»

Wiktionary

OPIOID, noun. A substance that is like opium.
OPIOID, noun. (physiology) Any of the natural substances, such as an endorphin, released in the body in response to pain.
OPIOID, noun. (pharmacology) Any of a group of synthetic compounds that exhibit similarities to the opium alkaloids that occur in nature.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne