Codamine

/ˈkoʊdəmiːn/ noun

Definition

A variant chemical compound similar to codamine, involving codeine or related alkaloid molecules with amine functional groups.

Etymology

From codeine (a pain-relieving drug from the opium poppy) combined with '-amine' (a chemical suffix for compounds containing nitrogen), representing a systematic drug nomenclature.

Kelly Says

Codamine sits in that shadowy space between official pharmaceutical compounds and experimental variations—most of these codamine variants never made it to hospitals, but their systematic names live on in dusty chemistry journals.

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