Plural of antalgic; substances, treatments, or methods that relieve pain.
Plural form of antalgic, from Greek anti- 'against' + algos 'pain'. The -s plural marks this as multiple pain-relief agents or treatments.
While 'antalgics' is grammatically correct, modern medicine typically uses 'analgesics' instead—watching which words survive in professional vocabularies versus being replaced shows how language standardization happens in specialized fields.
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