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The word "analgesic" is correct and usable in written English.
It is an adjective that means "relating to or capable of reducing pain without causing loss of consciousness". An example sentence using this word is: "The doctor prescribed a powerful analgesic to help relieve the patient's pain."
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analgesic
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Any medicine, such as aspirin, that reduces pain without inducing unconsciousness.
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Paracetamol is the world's favourite analgesic – the first choice for any painful condition.
Tinkering with this might produce a superior analgesic.
It seems likely that this protein will attract a great deal more analgesic research.
The aspirin's analgesic effect would head off hangovers before they even started.
In 1999 Dr Benedetti himself showed that someone who is injected with morphine for two days in a row experiences a powerful analgesic response not only on those days but also on the next, if the morphine is replaced by a placebo without his knowledge.
That distinguishes it from microRNAs, which control many proteins simultaneously.A hypothetical RNAi drug might, for instance, become the ultimate analgesic by affecting the activity of SCN9A, a gene recently pinpointed as the reason why a Pakistani street performer who put knives through his arms and walked on burning coals could not feel pain.
Unsurprisingly, then, there was outrage (even privately among ministers) when it emerged that, for the prime minister himself, the budget contained not pain but an analgesic of monstrous proportions.The biggest threat to Mr Berlusconi was never his various trials, even if some could still cause trouble.
Among their dental patients, low doses of nalbuphine had a short-lasting analgesic effect in the women, but profoundly enhanced pain in the men.
Indeed, patients can even be tricked into feeling pain.In one experiment volunteers were given a powerful analgesic and subjected to a painful stimulus which, because of the analgesic, they could not feel.
It is now being embraced by Mr Blair's government, as a possible analgesic for its pain over public-service reform.A fine example of what the theologians of Blairism mean by social enterprise is the Furniture Resource Centre (FRC) in Liverpool.
Modern nonnarcotic anti-inflammatory analgesic salicylates, such as aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid), and other anti-inflammatory analgesics, such as acetaminophen, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs; e.g., ibuprofen), and cyclooxygenase (COX) inhibitors (e.g., celecoxib), are less potent than opiates but are nonaddictive.
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