lancinating

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The most frequent type of the pains is lancinating or stabbing; they are like violent neuralgias occurring successively in various nerves; shifting about from one to another.

From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Anstie, Francis E.

There may be imperfect use of the hands in dressing, writing, etc.; lancinating pains are marked in all cases and come on in paroxysms.

From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Ritter, Thomas Jefferson

Later there is severe lancinating or throbbing pain.

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

In November, 1837, I was suddenly attacked with vomiting, accompanied with violent lancinating, sore or pinching pains in the region of the left kidney.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock

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)