(a.) Piercing; seeming to pierce or stab; as, lancinating pains (i.e., severe, darting pains).
Example Sentences:
(1) Tactile stimulation of a coin-sized area in a T-2 dermatome consistently triggered a lancinating pain in the ipsilateral C-8 dermatome in a 38-year-old woman.
(2) Two years prior to admission, she began to complain of itching and lancinating pain at the left lateral aspect of the nose.
(3) The appearance of a delicate whitish strand from a healed biopsy site, which produces lancinating pain, may represent an extruded cutaneous nerve.
(4) The most commonly cited type of pain in the patients with intermittent pain was lancinating, in the case of constant pain a burning sensation.
(5) Lancinating pain, as described in tabes dorsalis, was noted in four patients with chronic sciatica after several months of laminectomy.
(6) Two cases of progressive, occipital lancinating pain and dysesthesias associated with a sensory deficit of the C2 dermatome are presented.
(7) Clinical examination revealed distal sensory inpairment, complaints of burning and lancinating extremity pains, ataxia and a decrease of deep tendon reflexes with total ankle jerk loss.
(8) The characteristic attacks of lancinating pain in throat, ear and tongue can be accompanied by symptoms such as coughing, hoarseness, stridor and fainting.
(9) Both steady, burning pain and lancinating pains were relieved.
(10) A 72 year old woman with attacks of severe lancinating pain in the right frontotemporal region of her face had, on CT scan of the skull base, fibrous dysplasia of the right sphenoid bone, involving the areas traversed by the trigeminal nerve.
(11) Lancinating pain was reported by 40% and throbbing pain by 22.6%.
(12) A case of a clinical syndrome with transient hemiparesis, hemihypaesthesia, lancinating pains of a hand and "thalamic" position of this hand in a 60-year-old women.
(13) Classically, trigeminal neuralgia has been described as a paroxysmal, lancinating, knifelike pain which is limited to the anatomic pathways of the fifth cranial nerve.
(14) Emphasis was laid on the constant, fixed sciatic pain, as contrasted with the irregular, largely nocturnal, episodes of lancinating pain.
Stabbing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stab
Example Sentences:
(1) I ask a friend to have a stab at, “down at cafe that does us butties”, and he said: “Something to do with his ass?” “Whose arse?” He looked panicked.
(2) Dermot Kelly said: "The England Supporters Band is right up there with the vuvuzela for wanting to stab myself in the head with a fork."
(3) You could understand why the Met was frantic to find who had stabbed Rachel Nickell 49 times on Wimbledon Common while her screaming child looked on, but the case against Stagg was preposterous.
(4) Results indicate that 75% of the participating boys and 10% of participating girls had witnessed the shooting, stabbing, robbing, or killing of another person in their own lives.
(5) Stab wounds to the temporal fossa appear as a characteristic clinical entity.
(6) Many of the patients with stab wounds of the precordial chest (danger zone) had cardiac or major vascular injuries, and the mortality rate of them was high.
(7) Sigurdsson’s deep corner kick was headed back across goal by Borja and Fer, via a slight touch from Van der Hoorn, stabbed over the line.
(8) The multi-agency review of the circumstances leading up to the killing of the 16-year-old, who was fatally stabbed at Cults Academy, one of Scotland’s highest performing state schools, on 28 October 2015, also concluded that his death could have been avoided had those who knew that his killer carried weapons in school reported this to staff.
(9) Later, it proved that he was stabbed with a foreign body penetrating into the contralateral frontal lobe through the left nasal cavity.
(10) Violence had subsided by Sunday evening – but not before dozens had been shot or stabbed, leaving 25 dead and 56 injured.
(11) It consists of the comprehensive extraction of the varices through extremely small stab incisions, followed immediately by vigorous marching.
(12) It is possible that Clegg could yet get to 30 seats or so at the next election, and in Britain's fluid politics that may give him a stab at forming another coalition.
(13) Another Palestinian man, suspected of having stabbed and wounded an Israeli teenager, was shot dead by police in Jerusalem.
(14) Based on one-to-one interviews with more than 40 people, the inquiry said the immediate aftermath of the stabbing “was well managed by all agencies”.
(15) Overall mortality was 130, 8.7%; 9.5% for gunshot wounds, 3.4% for stab wounds, and 2.5% for blunt trauma.
(16) I got to HaHagana bridge with a friend and we saw a big man in a red sweatshirt stabbing a soldier twice, apparently someone from the air force,” he said.
(17) On the other hand, both blunt trauma and posterior stab wounds frequently caused isolated retroperitoneal duodenal lesions where the diagnosis was not evident on admission, but in which the insidious and progressive development of symptoms and signs drew attention to the need for laparotomy.
(18) A patient who sustained an acute carotid-cavernous fistula due to a stab wound is presented.
(19) The use of the Columbia agar stab culture is recommended as a rapid and simple test for recognition of group B streptococci.
(20) If so, ministers may need to be prepared for a new breed of civil servants, who will no longer fall on their swords if they believe they have been stabbed in the back.