adjective
- characterized by a sharp, stabbing, or piercing sensation, especially of pain
Usage: medical
Examples
- The patient complained of lancinating pain in her lower back.
- He experienced lancinating headaches that felt like lightning bolts.
- The doctor noted the lancinating quality of the nerve pain.
- Lancinating sensations shot down his leg when he moved.
- The medication helped reduce the lancinating discomfort.
- She described the pain as lancinating rather than constant.