narco-, narc-, -narcotic, narcotico-, -narcosis, -narcoticism +

1. A sleep inducing drug.
2. A person with narcolepsy.

Coma or stupor induced by hypnotic drugs.

Divination with opium and its effects or with drug-induced sleep.

1. A morbid desire to gain relief from painful stimuli usually through some pharmacological agent (morphine, opium, etc.), but also occasionally through psychic measures (e.g. hypnosis).
2. An uncontrollable craving for narcotic drugs.

1. Someone who suffers from narcomania.
2. An uncontrollable craving for narcotics.

Denoting, pertaining to, inducing, or affected by narcoma.

In a state of stupor; insensibility, numbness, dullness.

General and nonspecific reversible depression of neuronal excitability, produced by a number of physical and chemical agents, usually resulting in stupor rather than in anesthesia (with which narcosis was once synonymous).

An insane craving for narcosis or an unconsciousness produced by a drug.

1. Any spasmodic or recurrent disorder inducing stupor.
2. Spasm accompanied by stupor (state of reduced or suspended sensibility or a state of mental numbness).

An agent with both narcotic and stimulant properties.

1. Psychotherapy conducted with the patient under the influence of a sedative or narcotic.
2. In psychotherapy, the use of intravenous barbiturates to enhance relaxation, to facilitate communication, and to render the subject more responsive to the suggestions of the therapist.

In any particular narcotherapeutic session, the focus may be on reassurance (narcohypnosis), on uncovering repressed material (narcoanalysis), on encouraging expression of repressed affects (narcocatharsis), on eliciting data for later assimilation (narcosynthesis), or on obtaining data to provide more adequate evaluation (narcodiagnosis).

1. Originally, any drug derived from opium or opium-like compounds with potent analgesic effects associated with both significant alteration of mood and behavior and potential for dependence and tolerance.
2. More recently, any drug, synthetic or naturally occurring, with effects similar to those of opium and opium derivatives, including meperidine and fentanyl and its derivatives.
3. Drugs that can relieve severe pain but which are also sleep-inducing and usually highly addictive.
4.Capable of inducing a state of stuporous analgesia.

Having both narcotic and irritant properties.

Poisoning caused by narcotic or sleep-producing drugs; such as, opium and its derivatives, chloral combinations, or barbital and its myriad subvarieties.