Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An agent, such as an analgesic drug, that relieves pain.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A medicine used in to relieve pain.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
drug thatnumbs thepain in the body
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a medicine used to relieve pain
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Examples
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•Clemens says: He's never wanted to put anything harmful in his body and was troubled when he heard Vioxx, a painkiller from the pharmaceutical company Merck, may lead to heart attacks and had been taken off the market in 2004.
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It's bizarre that the puritans out there are so concerned with "addiction" that they ignore the problems that really might come of long-term painkiller use.
General news delagar 2008
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Doctors don't know, for example, whether regular mammograms for women in their forties save lives, and they ignore evidence that Celebrex, a widely prescribed and much ballyhooed prescription painkiller, is no more effective than ibuprofen, which costs one tenth as much.
Information, Please 2004
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Doctors don't know, for example, whether regular mammograms for women in their forties save lives, and they ignore evidence that Celebrex, a widely prescribed and much ballyhooed prescription painkiller, is no more effective than ibuprofen, which costs one tenth as much.
Information, Please 2004
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Experts said that future studies should follow young patients to determine if long-term painkiller use can alter the odds of developing dementia.
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Experts said that future studies should follow young patients to determine if long-term painkiller use can alter the odds of developing dementia.
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Of course, you've got to apply a local short-term painkiller first to deaden the burn from the caspacin, but it seems to do the trick.
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JOE JOHNS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Anderson, South Florida has been called the painkiller capital of the U.S.
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JOE JOHNS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Anderson, South Florida has been called the painkiller capital of the U.S.
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A victory for drug maker Merck in the latest trial over its now recalled painkiller, Vioxx.
bilby commented on the word painkiller
"There were six women around him. Every man's dream, but he could no longer feel his body. Everyone was wearing green surgical gowns; all of them, except the African, were wearing masks.
'We're going to give you a painkiller,' she said.
'I'm an artist,' he said. 'I want to feel my nerves flutter.'"
- 'The Quiet Girl', Peter Høeg.
March 19, 2008