The severe pain is described as lancinating, cutting, tearing, burning, boring and pressing. From Wordnik.com. [The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand] Reference
The pains are very sharp, lancinating, and burning. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Jones' Picnic] Reference
I am also at a loss how far to connect the disuse of opium with the lancinating pains which have troubled me since the time to which I refer. From Wordnik.com. [The Opium Habit] Reference
By the time he reached home he was conscious of feeling very ill: he had lancinating pains in his limbs, a chill down his spine, an outrageous temperature. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Felix] Reference
This particular doctor is a fancy Park Ave ID guy who had lots of patients with country homes, and so he listened to my story about the myoclonus and the lancinating pains and immediately diagnosed Lyme. From Wordnik.com. [Acrodermatitis Chronica Atrophicans] Reference
The head after proper rotation now begins the descent; and here the pains begin to change from the sharp, lancinating, cramp-like pains which begin in the back and move around to the front, to those of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Mother and Her Child] Reference
Gnawing, biting, lancinating pain attends cancers. From Wordnik.com. [The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand] Reference
Later there is severe lancinating or throbbing pain. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference
Some pain of a lancinating type occurred in the breast at this time. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
The pains are dull and aching instead of sharp and lancinating, as under Chelidonium. From Wordnik.com. [Bird & Wildlife Accessories] Reference
Parallax stalks behind and goads them, the lancinating lightnings of whose brow are scorpions. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
There came over me a sense of sickly faintness, accompanied with acute, lancinating pains in the head and neck. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming Race] Reference
Perhaps never before, only once in any case, did I experience an excitement so lancinating as I experienced that day. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of My Dead Life] Reference
She sighed, half with lancinating regret, and half in gentle disdain of that mercurial creature aged less than thirty. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Wives' Tale] Reference
The pain being lancinating in character, he stands with the injured foot at rest or constantly moves it back and forth. From Wordnik.com. [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference
And Edwin thought, with a lancinating pain, of what the old man had mumbled on the previous evening: "I shall never go down them stairs again.". From Wordnik.com. [Clayhanger] Reference
On coming out of this, she no longer had the lancinating pain in her side with every expansion of the lungs; but, instead, a dull pain, attended by a cough and tightness of the chest. From Wordnik.com. [All's for the Best] Reference
The pain from these wounds is lancinating; the horse is seen to raise and lower the limb or hold it from the ground altogether; often he points the foot, flexes the leg, and knuckles at the fetlock. From Wordnik.com. [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference
PDN may present itself as a progressive build-up of unpleasant sensory symptoms including tingling (paraesthesia), burning pain, radiating pain down the legs and toes and lancinating or contact pain. From Wordnik.com. [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases] Reference
I seem to look down a long, dark funnel and see a little machine-man bearing my semblance, patiently, steadily, wearily turning the handle of a windlass in the clear, lancinating cold of those sombre, silent days. From Wordnik.com. [The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance] Reference
The puncture of it is sharp as an electric burn; and the mere hum of it has a lancinating quality of tone which foretells the quality of the pain about to come, -- much in the same way that a particular smell suggests a particular taste. From Wordnik.com. [Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things] Reference
With the thrill came the lancinating thought: "All of France that lies beyond that line, land just like the land on which I am standing, inhabited by people just like the people who are talking to me, is under the insulting tyranny of the invader.". From Wordnik.com. [Over There War Scenes on the Western Front] Reference
Such men will well understand the lancinating pains of the cancer which was now consuming Athanase; they have gone through those long and bitter deliberations made in presence of some grandiose purpose they had not the means to carry out; they have endured those secret miscarriages in which the fructifying seed of genius falls on arid soil. From Wordnik.com. [The Jealousies of a Country Town] Reference
A lancinating, neuralgic kind, at others, it is more like colic. From Wordnik.com. [The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand] Reference
Nevertheless, firm, flat resistance was still felt in the lower right side and upon pressure there was lancinating pain no fever. ". From Wordnik.com. [Appendicitis] Reference
"Distention of the abdomen and the area of diffuse resistance increased; sensitiveness to touch appeared to be dulled by the opium; in the ileo-cecal region, however, it was constantly severe and lancinating. From Wordnik.com. [Appendicitis] Reference
(harp lancinating piin. From Wordnik.com. [A dictionary of the English language. Abstracted from the folio ed., by the author. To which is ...] Reference
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