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
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
“In an earlier study, we reported that for the analgesic ketamine, pain relief correlates negatively with how strongly connected two regions of the default mode network are before the drug’s administration,” explains Ueno.
From Science Daily • Dec. 3, 2024
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
At least, he told himself so to feel less guilty and the words were a successful analgesic.
From An Apostate: Nawin of Thais by Sills, Steven (Steven David Justin)
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