painkiller
Example Sentences
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The sector employs well over a million people and provides the ingredients for all the stuff of modern life, from polyethylene packaging to phenol for painkillers.
"It hurt very much and I had to take many painkillers," she says.
From BBC
The idea that a humble painkiller could help prevent cancer is both exciting and provocative.
From Science Daily
This reinforces guidance from major medical organisations in the UK, US and Europe on the safety of the common painkiller.
From BBC
Her doctor told her the problem was probably tied to some of her prescriptions, so she pulled back on taking the painkiller gabapentin and the muscle relaxant methocarbamol.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
