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
In nervous, well-bred animals analgesic agents may be employed; or small doses of morphin sulphate—one to two grains—given at intervals of three hours during the first stages of the affection is very beneficial.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by John Victor Lacroix
Common treatments delivered directly into joints, including analgesics, corticosteroids, and viscosupplements, can ease symptoms, but their effects are often short-lived, and they do not consistently slow the progression of the disease.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
The reason, its authors wrote, was that “we had no data available on analgesics or possible local anesthetics used during ritual circumcisions in our cohort, so we were unable to address the paracetamol hypothesis directly.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2025
When it comes to analgesics, always consult your physician first.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 2025
He had left the court at one point Wednesday to receive anti-inflammatories and analgesics, he said.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 7, 2022
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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