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.
orâ¢iâ¢gin. 1. something from which anything arises or is derived; source. 2. rise or derivation from a particular source: the origin of a word. 3. the first stage of existence; beginning. 4. ancestry; parentage: of Scottish origin. 5. Anat. a. the point of derivation.