Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A medication that reduces or eliminates pain.
- adj. Of or causing analgesia.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as analgetic.
Wiktionary
- n. pharmacology Any medicine, such as aspirin, that reduces pain without inducing unconsciousness.
- adj. medicine Of or relating to analgesia; anodyne.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Med.) serving to reduce the sensibility to pain without loss of consciousness.
- n. (Med.) a medication which serves to reduce the sensibility to pain without loss of consciousness. Aspirin and acetaminophen (Tylenol) are commonly used non-prescription
analgesics .
WordNet 3.0
- adj. capable of relieving pain
- n. a medicine used to relieve pain
Etymologies
- From analgesia ("absence of pain"), from New Latin, from Ancient Greek ἀν- (an-, "without") + ἄλγησις (algēsis, "sense of pain"), from ἄλγος (algos, "pain"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“These Gz proteins are also responsible for the long-term analgesic tolerance produced by single doses of these agonists, as well as for the cross-tolerance between CB1Rs and MORs.”
“To further investigate this, Michael Weishaupt, DMV, from the Equine Hospital at the University of Zurich in Switzerland, co-authored the recent study, "Short term analgesic effect of extracorporeal shock wave therapy in horses with proximal palmar metacarpal / plantar metatarsal pain.”
“The long-term analgesic reaction after social conflict may be considered as an adaptive learnt response that brings the subject, more rapidly into a potent protective analgesic state”
“For example, drugs containing opiates such as codeine, if taken at a rate as low as two doses per week, can escalate the headache frequency - so-called analgesic-dependant headache.”
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
“It boasts leading brands such as analgesic Saridon, skin-care lotion Lacto Calamine and emergency contraceptive iPill, which it bought from Cipla for $21 million.”
“One possibility is that when sufferers expect relief, they are able to redirect their attention away from their pain, creating an analgesic effect.”
The Huffington Post: Wray Herbert: How Do Placebos Relieve Pain?
“If not, then the evidence would suggest that sugar pills and distraction have independent analgesic effects.”
The Huffington Post: Wray Herbert: How Do Placebos Relieve Pain?
“So today I am going to wax poetic, nostalgic and, most important, analgesic about being lowbrow.”
“Then she inspected my unibrow, which she said was "bushy but not unusual for a guy," and applied some analgesic soothing cream to soften the skin from which the middle part of my eyebrow grew.”
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