Category: N

An addiction to the use of narcotics. Addiction may be said to exist when discontinuance causes abstinence symptoms that are speedily relieved by a dose of the drug.  

Selection of another like one’s own self as the object of love, friendship, or liking.  

A toxic petroleum derivative used as an antiseptic and in some dyes. It is prepared from naphthalene.  

A toxic hydrocarbon, C10H8. It is used as a disinfectant, in moth balls, and in the manufacture of dyes and explosives.  

Gasoline made thick or jelly-like for use in incendiary bombs and flame throwers.  

To objects approx. 1 nanometer (nm) in size, i.e., about the size of an atom.  

Any species of parasitic flatworms (“flukes”) that live in freshwater fish. They may infest humans who consume raw, smoked, or partially cooked salmon and steelhead. Characteristic symptoms include nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain.  

Abnormal smallness of thorax or body.  

The smallest known bacteria with intact gram-negative cell walls. These microbes produce biologically available apatite crystals that mineralize into structures similar to those found in kidney stones. The organisms have been isolated from nearly all kidney stones and are suspected of being a causative agent in stone formation.  

A drug that is antagonistic to the actions of narcotics and opiates such as morphone, methadone, and opium. It is helpful in reversing the respiratory depression caused by an overdose of the narcotics.