analgesic
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When we look at relaxing paintings, we actually activate our pain analgesic response.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026
When the team tested the effects of boosting acetylcholine in mice that had tolerance to opioids, they saw the same long-lasting analgesic effects.
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
As for pain relief, two studies were conducted to examine the analgesic effect of nostalgia on different levels of pain.
From National Geographic ● Jul. 28, 2023
As an analgesic, it is uniform in its action, and this is due to the suspension of the physiological functions of the sensory cells which it comes in contact with.
From Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say by Martha Meir Allen
The medications “are not analgesics in the traditional sense, but they are becoming increasingly relevant to pain medicine,” they wrote.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
“Multiple days of treatment are often required, and antibiotics and analgesics may also be administered to treat secondary infection and control pain,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026
"The sham-controlled design helped rule out placebo effects, and we limited stronger analgesics, which made differences between groups more clearly attributable to the radiation itself," he said.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2025
When it comes to analgesics, always consult your physician first.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 2025
Many of the synthetical coal-tar products now so largely employed as analgesics are powerful toxic agents.
From Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology by W. G. Aitchison (William George Aitchison ) Robertson
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