Definition of Opiumism

1. opium addiction [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Opiumism

opisthosomata
opisthotic
opisthotics
opisthotonic
opisthotonoid
opisthotonos
opisthotonus
opitulation
opium addict
opium alkaloid
opium den
opium poppies
opium poppy
opium taker
opiumism (current term)
opiumisms
opiumlike
opiums
ople tree
ople trees
oplock
oplocks
opo-
opobalsamum
opodeldoc
opodeldocs
opodidymus
oporice

Literary usage of Opiumism

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. American Medicine (1920)
"Those who become experts upon opiumism over night may think differently. If it were not for the mischief that they can do, and are doing, ..."

2. Twentieth Century Practice: An International Encyclopedia of Modern Medical by Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1895)
"In chronic opiumism usually the textural destruction and tissue inflammatory degenerations are practically absent, while the disproportionate fibrous-tissue ..."

3. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1905)
"... opiumism, plumbism, and then come the general paralysis of the insane, the exhaustion psychoses, general neuroses, including epilepsy, hysteria and ..."

4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1920)
"... and other forms of opiumism from our country entirely. In discussing this question I mean to take into account the management of the addict as well as ..."

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