Analgesics in a sentence

Analgesics Analgesics (also known as "painkillers") are used to relieve pain (achieve analgesia).

Analgesics Analgesics are drugs that relieve pain.

In choosing analgesics, the severity and response to other medication determines the choice of agent; the World Health Organization (WHO) pain ladder citation specifies mild analgesics as its first step.

There are two main types: non-narcotic analgesics for mild pain, and narcotic analgesics for severe pain.

Although charities are beginning to receive the green light to get goods out to Turkey, surgeons say they need supplies such as orthopaedic screws and nails, anaesthetics and analgesics.

During the raid, 17 varieties of medicines, including antibiotics, steroids, antifungal drugs, analgesics etc., were found.

Israeli supporters of medicinal cannabis have argued that the health system is quick to prescribe opioid analgesics and encourages their use for an extended period before prescribing medicinal marijuana.

The executive Officer of the NSW Drug and Alcohol Authority, Mr Brian Stewart, said that retailers of the compound analgesics were clearly breaking the law.

Amidst the pain however, he chose to patronise a patent-medicine vendor in his neighbourhood at Ijora Badia, a Lagos surburb where he bought some analgesics and antimalarial drugs.

It has also been demonstrated in studies that codeine is not more effective than other commonly available and safer analgesics.

Barbiturates also have analgesic effects; however, these effects are somewhat weak, preventing barbiturates from being used in surgery in the absence of other analgesics.

However, the ability of alcohol to relieve severe pain is likely inferior to many analgesics used today (e.

Lexicon of alcohol and drug terms published by the World Health Organization The term usually refers to opiates or opioids, which are called narcotic analgesics.

Other drugs Drugs that have been introduced for uses other than analgesics are also used in pain management.

Paliative treatment modalities involve symptomatic medications (non-opioid and opioid analgesics) for abdominal/retroperitoneal pain.

The BNF notes that all opioid analgesics cause dependence and tolerance but that this is "no deterrent in the control of pain in terminal illness".

These drugs are used along with analgesics to modulate and/or modify the action of opioids when used against pain, especially of neuropathic origin.

The use of adjuvant analgesics is an important and growing part of the pain-control field and new discoveries are made practically every year.

Various analgesics (painkillers) may be used in controlling the headaches of intracranial hypertension.

Veterinary medicine uses, for actual or potential animal pain, the same analgesics and anesthetics as used in humans.