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inducing sleep and relieving pain, (
); It contains an opiate, and should not be given
without definite orders from a physician. — The Mother and Her Child;
• (narcotic) – any of a class of substances that blunt the senses, as opium,
morphine, belladonna, and alcohol, that in large quantities produce
euphoria, stupor, or coma, that when used constantly can cause habituation
or addiction, and that are used in medicine to relieve pain, cause sedation,
and induce sleep; If one man may soothe his feelings with this narcotic,
another may stimulate them, when he is low and cheerless, with alcohol. —
From Death into Life;
• (sedative)- allaying irritability or excitement; assuaging pain; lowering
functional activity; And for relaxation and sedative, when he had thoroughly
worn himself out with mental toil, he would have recourse to the hardest
bodily exercise. — Life of Charles Dickens;
• (anesthetic)- a substance that produces anesthesia, as halothane, procaine,
or ether; After the sting of the local anesthetic, there was no pain in the
procedure. — Meyer, Stephenie - New Moon;
• (tranquilizing)- tending to soothe or tranquilize; Animal Control officers say
they tried to track the dogs and shoot them with tranquilizing darts but were
unsuccessful;
• (stupor)- suspension or great diminution of sensibility, as in disease or as
caused by narcotics, intoxicants, etc., ( , ,
; ); He lay in stupor, and the surgeon said he
was going comfortably, and would suffer little. — Lazarre;
astigmatism : cataract : myopic
• (astigmatism)- Ophthalmology. a refractive error of the eye in which
parallel rays of light from an external source do not converge on a single
focal point on the retina,( ); The correction of astigmatism is
often accomplished in conjunction with the correction of field curvature
aberrations;
• (cataract)- an abnormality of the eye, characterized by opacity of the lens,
( ); A little nephew whom she had adopted was suffering
from cataract, and she desired to place him under the care of the famous
Düsseldorf oculist. — Annie Besant An Autobiography;
• a descent of water over a steep surface; a waterfall, esp. one of
considerable size, ( );
• (myopic)- Ophthalmology. pertaining to or having myopia; nearsighted,
( ; ); Therefore her thoughts and arguments were myopic,
almost necessarily specious. — Children of the Whirlwind;