papaverine

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papaverine

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From Latin papāver (“poppy”) + English -ine.

noun papaverines

countable, uncountable A nonaddictive derivative of opium used in medicine to relieve muscle spasms, as a vasodilator and in some forms of erectile dysfunction.

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noun pharmaceutical drug

Deutsch	Papaverin
Italiano	papaverina

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@misc{papaverine_2026,
  title = {papaverine},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/papaverine},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}