analgesic

Example Sentences

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When we look at relaxing paintings, we actually activate our pain analgesic response.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

Their latest findings were published December 17 in Nature under the title "GTP release-selective agonists prolong opioid analgesic efficacy."

From Science Daily • Jan. 6, 2026

There's this much reported case of a woman who suffered from convulsions after taking a medicine for diabetes which had a similar sounding name to an analgesic she had been prescribed.

From BBC • Sep. 30, 2025

And so there is no analgesic for the moral injury that comes with realizing that Canadian McDonald’s have decided American Big Macs are simply too small for their liking.

From Slate • Sep. 7, 2023

As a rule this sort of light inhalation serves to produce the desired analgesic effect.

From The Mother and Her Child by Sadler, William S.