oxymorphone

[ ok-si-mawr-fohn ]

nounPharmacology.
  1. a potent semisynthetic morphine-derived narcotic analgesic, C17H19NO4, used as a substitute for morphine.

Origin of oxymorphone

1
oxy-2 + morph(ine) + -one, components of its full chemical name

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