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painkiller

/peyn-kil-er/US // ˈpeɪnˌkɪl ər //UK // (ˈpeɪnˌkɪlə) //

止痛药,止痛剂,止疼药,镇痛剂

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a drug, treatment, or anything else that relieves pain, especially an analgesic.

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Examples

  • In their suit, Justice Department lawyers contend Walmart executives set up a system that turned its 5,000 in-store pharmacies into one of the country’s biggest suppliers of highly addictive opioid painkillers.

  • In this case, Turner’s son wanted to see her so he could refill his prescription for painkillers.

  • Patients still needed infusions and relied on painkillers, mostly opioids, to manage episodes of intense, often debilitating pain.

  • Members of the Sackler family own and formerly directed Purdue Pharma, which introduced the powerful opioid painkiller OxyContin in 1996.

  • When you hear about people using, and dying from, heroin — an illegal drug — you might think of them as a different category of drug user than the people who take legal prescription painkillers.

  • His arthritic knees are at their worst, despite the endless shots of painkiller.

  • Among the states with the most painkiller prescriptions per person, Alabama, Tennessee, and West Virginia were the top three.

  • Zohydro is the new FDA-approved painkiller that some doctors think the FDA had no business approving.

  • The FDA-approved painkiller is raising red flags in medical circles and consumer protection groups.

  • Dr. Garg arrived to confirm the procedure and ask if I had any questions, and the anesthesiologist ordered a painkiller.

  • Stuffed himself till his hide was stretched as tight as a sausage skin, and then howled for painkiller.

  • Gordon found one tablet of painkiller left in the bottle and swallowed it with the dregs of the coffee.

  • Painkiller would come next; after that, if need be, would come libations of red ink.

  • He once had some painkiller administered to him by Tom Sawyer.

  • "I guess you'll do well enough without any painkiller," he said to himself.

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