Word: numbingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many of the methods used at the clinics are unconventional, at least by ordinary medical standards. They include hypnosis, biofeedback and acupuncture. Some new approaches are also being explored. To numb sensitive areas of the back by killing nerves, the pain doctors have been injecting alcohol into the tiny nerves of the vertebrae. For problems with facet joints, they sometimes insert heated needles into the area's nerves, an acupuncture-like technique called surgical diathermy or facet denervation. Another popular tool of the pain clinicians: pocket-size electrical stimulators that patients carry around with them. Held against a painful...
...them almost his whole being in the war and now, after all that, they weren't satisfied with three quarters being gone, they wanted to take the rest of him. It was crazy but he knew that's what they wanted. They wanted his head and his mind, the numb legs and the wheelchair, they wanted everything. It had all been one big dirty trick and he didn't know what to think anymore...
Thank you for your article "The Righting of Writing" [May 19]. As a writing consultant numb from seeing writing problems and errors in English, I am glad to know that my effort to help people ex press themselves in a clear and concise way is a priority in the land...
...America is getting more unnatural every day. A woman expecting her first baby today has a 25% chance of delivering by caesarean. Even a 'natural' birth often means that the mother is merely 'awake' for the proceedings. Never mind that she's strapped down, numb below the waist, electronically monitored, chemically induced, and intravenously...
...noticed some numb spots and blemishes on her skin. Doctors diagnosed Hansen's Disease...