anodyne meaning

Adjective: anodyne  'anu`dIn

1. Capable of relieving pain
   "the anodyne properties of certain drugs"
   - analgesic, analgetic

Noun: anodyne  'anu`dIn

1. A medicine used to relieve pain
   - analgesic, painkiller, pain pill

Derived forms: anodynes

See also: moderating

Type of: medicament, medication, medicinal drug, medicine

Encyclopedia: Anodyne

[Medicine]
adj : serving to ease pain
n : a drug that allays pain

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1. determination of imperatorin in yuanhu anodyne capsule by liquid chromatography
2. although rejected in favour of an anodyne text, this idea was significant
3. it is the most supernatural that holographic water is the most economical, the most high-efficient anodyne global medical science cannot invents
4. In fact, some would consider it pedestrian, even anodyne.
5. All this is so anodyne as to be completely unobjectionable.