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dextrorphan

Today it means: A psychoactive morphinan drug that acts as an antitussive and dissociative hallucinogen. Full definition →

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From dextro- + -orphan (“morphinan derivate”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.