lancinating

Example Sentences

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On coming out of this, she no longer had the lancinating pain in her side with every expansion of the lungs; but, instead, a dull pain, attended by a cough and tightness of the chest.

From All's for the Best by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)

Some pain of a lancinating type occurred in the breast at this time.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

And Edwin thought, with a lancinating pain, of what the old man had mumbled on the previous evening: “I shall never go down them stairs again.”

From Clayhanger by Bennett, Arnold

It is, as we have seen, commonly of a lancinating character, and is associated with hurried breathing and extreme frequency of the pulse.

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

In character they are described as a deep intense aching, with occasional severe or excruciating, sharp, lancinating pains.

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