opioid

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈəʊpiɔɪd/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A substance that has effects similar to opium:; Any of the natural substances, such as an endorphin, released in the body in response to pain; an endogenous opioid.
    — 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.
  2. A substance that has effects similar to opium:; Any of a group of synthetic compounds that exhibit similarities to the opium alkaloids that occur in nature.
    — The number of young children in the US who have died from opioid overdoses has increased significantly, according to a new study on accidental poisonings of children 5 and younger.

词形变化

opioids plural

词汇关系

衍生词
copioid nonopioid opioidergic opioidlike

词源

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