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opioid

noun
/ˈəʊpiɔɪd/UK

Etymology

Attested 1963; from opium + -oid, to distinguish from opiate.

  1. derived from *sokʷós✻ — “juice, resin”
  2. derived from ὄπιον
  3. borrowed from opium
  4. formed as opioid — “opium + -oid”

Definitions

  1. A substance that has effects similar to opium

    A substance that has effects similar to opium:

    • Mechoulam concluded that our bodies must produce their own cannabinoids — endogenous molecules that, like the native opioids and nicotinelike molecules our bodies also make, engage the cannabinoid receptors throughout the human body.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for opioid. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA