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
But when the researchers injected a drug that stimulates ⍺7 into the mice, the cells' initial excited state quickly gave way to a prolonged quiet state, producing an analgesic effect that lasted for several hours.
From Science Daily • Sep. 20, 2023
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
I tried to sell him a new analgesic ointment, but he insisted on methyl chloride.
From The Blue Ghost Mystery by Goodwin, Harold L. (Harold Leland)
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