apomorphia Chem.
(æpəʊˈmɔːfɪə)
[f. Gr. ἀπό from + morphia.]
A white crystalline powder, C17H17NO2, obtained by heating morphia with an excess of hydrochloric acid: also apomorphine.
| 1869 Eng. Mech. 1 Oct. 43/1 The physiological effects of apomorphia are very different from those of morphia. 1875 H. Wood Therap. (1879) 438 Dr. Gee was the first to announce that apomorphia is a certain and prompt emetic. 1888 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 14 Jan. 110/2 (heading) Poisoning by Nitre: Treatment with Apomorphine. 1891 Daily News 6 Oct. 2/7 One of the apomorphine tablets were missing. Ibid., The deceased..had recourse to the apomorphine in order to produce vomiting. 1966 Listener 17 Mar. 401/2 The hero of William Burroughs's latest novel is apomorphine, a vaccine, prepared by boiling morphine in hydrochloric acid, whose function it is, through its action on the back brain, to regulate human metabolism and cure junk-addiction. |