denarcotize

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To remove the narcotine from.

   • In consequence of the solubility of narcotina, and insolubility of morphia in ether, it is employed to denarcotize opium in preparing it for making denarcotized laudanum.
   • He invented the calorimeter, a votaic arrangement of large plates that produced heat; the deflagrator, a machine for producing heat on the plan of the oxyhydrogen blowpipe; he devised a plan to denarcotize laudanum.
   • The U.S.P.X dropped the old formula for Laudanum and recognizes but one Tincture of Opium, which meets every need. The treatment with paraffin denarcotizes the preparation, making it less likely to produce nausea than the older tincture.
2. 2

   To denature

   To denature; to alter so as to cancel an intoxicating, addictive, or disagreeable effect.

   • A small calabash, filled with baste to denarcotize the smoke, is employed for a mouthpiece, and at times the baste serves a double purpose, as in seasons of scarcity the Dinka remove and chew it.
   • Extracts of coca leaves are used by many of us every day as denarcotized coca leaves in the form of certain cola drinks .
3. 3

   To administer a stimulant to (a person or animal under the influence of a narcotic) in…

   To administer a stimulant to (a person or animal under the influence of a narcotic) in order to counteract the effects of a narcotic drug.

   • However, to assure prompt awakening we routinely give postoperative doses of a stimulant which will overcome barbituric acid depression of the cortical centers and, in this way, denarcotize the patient.
   • Evipal came into use as a rectal anesthetic a year or so later and it was felt desirable to denarcotize patients at the close of the operation .
   • Wood concluded that it is possible to denarcotize patients after basal , general or mixed anesthesia.
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   1. 4

      To render ineffective.

   2. 5

      To waken

      To waken; to make aware.

      • To emancipate a man you must find something that shall denarcotize the will, that shall wake it up from its false sleep and reinvigorate it .
   3. 6

      To deprive (an addict) of a narcotic drug until there is no longer a physical addiction.

      • Each patient must be denarcotized, the toleration must be removed, the habit broken up, and the fear replaced by confidence and hope.
      • One of the problems in the treatment of narcotic addicts in the past has been that you may denarcotize them, if you will, or withdraw them from their acute addiction, and then release them and they go right back to their prior addiction.
   4. 7

      To remove the issue of narcotics from (a relationship)

      • As experts warned of a major unfolding security crisis, one that could easily derail Mexico's young democracy, the Fox administration embarked on a desperate effort to denarcotize U.S. - Mexico relations .
   5. 8

      To remove reliance on narcotics from (an organization)

      • This seems to have partially met Pastrana's goal of having the FARC denarcotize itself, but it left open the matter of forced eradication of the industrial plantations, a significant source of FARC income.

The neighborhood

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