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lau⋅da⋅num

  [lawd-n-uhm, lawd-nuhm]
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–noun
1. a tincture of opium.
2. Obsolete. any preparation in which opium is the chief ingredient.
Origin:
1595–1605; orig. ML var. of ladanum; arbitrarily used by Paracelsus to name a remedy based on opium
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lau·da·num   (lôd'n-əm)   
n.  A tincture of opium, formerly used as a drug.

[New Latin, perhaps alteration of Medieval Latin labdanum, labdanum; see labdanum.]
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Main Entry: lau·da·num
Pronunciation: 'lod-n&m, -&n-&m
Function: noun
1 : any of various formerly usedpreparations of opium
2 : a tincture of opium
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laudanum lau·da·num (lôd'n-əm)
n.
A tincture of opium, formerly used as a drug.

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