lancinating
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When inflammation is passing on to suppuration the pain assumes a throbbing character, and as the pus reaches the surface, or “points,” as it is called, sharp, darting, or lancinating pains are experienced.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis
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.
Distention of the abdomen and the area of diffuse resistance increased; sensitiveness to touch appeared to be dulled by the opium; in the ileo-cecal region, however, it was constantly severe and lancinating.
From Appendicitis by Tilden, John Henry
Later there is severe lancinating or throbbing pain.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander
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)
