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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In the majority, pain responded well to minor analgesics.
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It was better than an analgesic in her blood.
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It was named enkephalin and its discovery was a major advance in the search for new analgesics.
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She was not initially X-rayed because of her pregnant condition, but was advised to rest and to take an analgesic .
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Skeletal muscle relaxing agents and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are often used but probably are of no more benefit than simple aspirin-based analgesics.
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That is an argument for having a range of effective analgesics, but hardly for continuing to multiply their numbers indefinitely.
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The rest of us find paracetamol an effective analgesic with no important side effects and have no need of an antidote.