lancinating

Example Sentences

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A calculus in the duct gives rise to sharp lancinating pain, which is aggravated when the patient takes food.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander

The abdominal pain is of a tearing, lancinating, sometimes colicky character.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

The pain being lancinating in character, he stands with the injured foot at rest or constantly moves it back and forth.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.

Treat in this manner five to eight minutes, daily, until the inflammation is suppressed, which will be indicated by an abatement of the extreme sensitiveness and lancinating pain under the electrode.

From A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication by Clark, Daniel

There in that lancinating cold, in an ecstasy of rage, despairfully he poised over it.

From The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)