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

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

But when the researchers injected a drug that stimulates ⍺7 into the mice, the cells' initial excited state quickly gave way to a prolonged quiet state, producing an analgesic effect that lasted for several hours.

From Science Daily • Sep. 20, 2023

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

Through the kind invitation of your directors, I am present to give you the history of "rapid breathing" as an analgesic agent, as well as my experience therein since I first discovered it.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881 by Various