analgesicadj.n.

1852 N. Amer. Homœopathic Jrnl. 2 328 There are sensitive spots or even points in the midst of analgesic surfaces.

1870 N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 251 When great mental exaltation is induced in a hysterical person we find this analgesic condition developed to its utmost extent.

1897 Proc. Soc. Psychical Res. 1896–7 12 193 At a later date I found I could make her analgesic by suggestion.

1907 Practitioner Sept. 330 I found..that the method employed in the Klinik in Berlin..only aimed at rendering the skin insensitive, while, in my own cases, the end in view was to render the whole field of operation, even the deeper structures, analgesic.

1979 Amer. Jrnl. Psychiatry 136 1148/1 Affectively ill patients were more analgesic than controls, and depressed men were significantly more analgesic than depressed women or control subjects.

2000 E. R. Kandel et al. Princ. Neural Sci. (ed. 4) v. xxiv. 483/1 The animal still responds to touch, pressure, and temperature within the body area that is analgesic—it simply feels less pain.

1868 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 56 99 Thus we clearly separate anæsthetics from soporifics, or rather the analgesic influence from the hypnotic.

1897 Lancet 18 Sept. 738/1 The compound methylic ether of amidoxybenzoic acid is possessed of remarkable anæsthetic, or rather analgesic, properties when locally applied.

1903 W. A. Bastedo in Buck's Ref. Handbk. Med. Sci. (rev. ed.) VI. 573/2 Besides its antitussive action, peronine is slightly analgesic and hypnotic.

1931 Amer. Mercury Jan. 91/2 The room reeked with the smell of camphor, witchhazel, Vick's Vaporub, Mentholatum, and Analgesic Balm.

1997 Times Higher Educ. Suppl. 12 Dec. 7/3 Some commentators have argued that a glut of horrific real life images of events such as horrible accidents or atrocities blunts morality and has an ‘analgesic’ effect that numbs onlookers to the point of indifference.

2005 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) Aug. 18/1 Electroacupuncture..increases the effectiveness of analgesic (pain-relieving) acupuncture.

1874 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics 213 In the class Analgesics, are placed those drugs whose chief clinical use is in the relief of pain.

1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 242 The newer analgesics—antipyrin, antifebrin, and phenacetin.

1933 M. B. Muse Pharmacol. & Therapeutics i. 42 Morphine sulphate..when administered as an analgesic has numerous side actions.

1948 Times 10 Dec. 5/6 No one pretends that the State's acquisition of all development rights can be a quite painless extraction for all its citizens, in spite of the £300m. analgesic.

1988 E. Segal Doctors liv. 769 We need the husband's signature to give the analgesic and the epidural.

2003 Teen Vogue Aug. 184/1 Incidence of emergency-room visits related to overdose on narcotic analgesics (such as Vicodin, Oxycontin, or Percocet) more than doubled between 1994 and 2001.

1946 Science 20 Dec. 588/1 Six compounds..are more active analgesically than demerol.

1985 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 82 3178/1 The fragments retain substantial opioid-receptor binding activity but are virtually inactive analgesically.

2007 Clin. Therapeutics 29 1593/2 These analgesically adequate dose strengths were to be kept constant throughout both study periods.