If the breathing is stopped completely without restarting, the patient dies. Because COPD patients have compromised breathing already, ... very inefficient breathing, overly high doses of morphine can quickly cause these patients to stop breathing.
etymology. 1. The study of the origins and development of words. 2. The study of the history of words, tracing them back to their earliest recorded forms.
The noun ORIGIN has 5 senses: 1. the place where something begins, where it springs into being. 2. properties attributable to your ancestry. 3. an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events. 4. the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero. 5. the descendants of one individual. Familiarity information: ORIGIN used as a noun is common.