cocaine

Definitions

1. An addictive drug derived from coca (Erythroxylum) or prepared synthetically, used sometimes medicinally as a local anesthetic and, often illegally, as a stimulant.
   uncountable
2. An addictive drug derived from coca (Erythroxylum) or prepared synthetically, used sometimes medicinally as a local anesthetic and, often illegally, as a stimulant
3. Dated form of cocaine.
   alt-of, dated, uncountable
4. The powder form of this drug, specifically.
   countable, uncountable, usually
5. The powder form of this drug, specifically
6. Any chemical derivative of this drug.
   countable
7. Any chemical derivative of this drug
8. Synonym of cocainize

Equivalents

20 more languages

العربيةالكوكائين

Bosanskikokainkolaкокаин

Češtinakokainkokssníh

Ελληνικάκοκαΐνη

Suomikokaiinikokiskokkelilumiyläkerta+ 2 more

Galegococacocaína

Hrvatskikokainkolaкокаин

Bahasa Indonesiakokaina

Italianococaine

日本語コカイン

한국어코카인

Kurdîkokaîn

Latviešukreka

Polskikokainakokainowy

Српскиkokainkolaкокаин

Svenskaäbiabiatkokainkola+ 1 more

ไทยโคเคน

Türkçekokain

Українськакокаїнкокаїновий

Tiếng Việtnàng tiên

Examples

“Holmes, who loathed every form⟳ of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker-street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own⟳ keen nature.”

“All I get⟳, uh, is this cup of cold coffee and cocaine / And your ugly face⟳, look⟳ out”

“Cocaine’s awfully expensive stuff, isn't it? Is it worth it?”

“Cocaïne is prepared by digesting coca leaves with 85 per cent. alcohol containing a small quantity of sulphuric acid, mixing the expressed mass with milk of lime, neutralising the filtrate with sulphuric acid, evaporating off the alcohol, mixing the residue with water, precipitating the resulting yellow-brown solution with carbonate of sodium, treating the brown precipitate of impure cocaïne with ether, and evaporating. Cocaïne then remains, partly amorphous, partly crystalline, and may be purified by repeated treatment with alcohol.”

“Cocaïne.—Let⟳ us mention⟳, finally, cocaïne as the most recent mydriatric we possess⟳.”

“When cocaïne is injected beneath the skin, the filaments of the sensory nerves which ramify throughout its substance lose⟳ their power of conduction, and local anesthesia is the result⟳.”

“Cocaïne, in addition to its action as an anæsthetic, produces a very marked change⟳ in liver, which is characterised by a great increase⟳ in the volume of that organ and a specific degeneration of the liver cells.”

“On account of its use⟳ as a local anæsthetic, cocaïne is the best known of the alkaloids present⟳ in coca-leaves (Erythroxylon coca).”

“When boiled with water, cocaïne is hydrolyzed into benzoylecgonine, C₁₆H₁₉NO₄, and methylic alcohol.”

“Cocaïne is used in medicine usually in the form⟳ of its hydrochloride, as a rapid local anæsthetic.”

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