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Definition of Lancinating
1. Adjective. Painful as if caused by a sharp instrument. "Lancinating pain"
Definition of Lancinating
1. a. Piercing; seeming to pierce or stab; as, lancinating pains (i.e., severe, darting pains).
Definition of Lancinating
1. Verb. (present participle of lancinate) ¹
2. Adjective. (context: especially of pain) Sharp, stabbing or piercing. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lancinating
1. lancinate [v] - See also: lancinate
Medical Definition of Lancinating
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Lancinating
Literary usage of Lancinating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Homœopathic Therapeutics by Samuel Lilienthal (1890)
"lancinating pains, < by carriage-riding and by the least contact; paroxysmal
tearing pains from occiput upward and forward, over vertex ; often several ..."
2. The London Medical Gazette (1849)
"Did not sweat last night ; complains of very severe lancinating pain beneath the
left breast and up the shoulder. The medicine continues to burn her when ..."
3. A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Sexual Organs of Women by Friedrich Wilhelm Scanzoni (1861)
"... while cancer is ordinarily the seat of violent, burning or lancinating pains,
which irradiate from the vulva into the interior of the pelvis toward the ..."
4. Generalized Pain by Norbert Ortner, Francis Joseph Rebman (1922)
"When the lancinating pains are the first apparent sign of the disease the situation
may be more intricate. A thorough probing for ataxia in the lower ..."
5. Observations on the Nature and Cure of Gout: On Nodes of the Joints; and on by James Parkinson (1805)
"... and this Mr. Watson says, I think, will sufficiently account for those
lancinating pains in the head, so grievously complained of. ..."
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