| pain | | |
| n. (state) | 1. hurting, pain | a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder.; "the patient developed severe pain and distension" |
| ~ symptom | (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease. |
| ~ ache, aching | a dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain. |
| ~ excruciation, suffering, agony | a state of acute pain. |
| ~ arthralgia | pain in a joint or joints. |
| ~ burn, burning | pain that feels hot as if it were on fire. |
| ~ causalgia | a burning pain in a limb along the course of a peripheral nerve; usually associated with skin changes. |
| ~ colic, gripes, griping, intestinal colic | acute abdominal pain (especially in infants). |
| ~ chest pain | pain in the chest. |
| ~ chiralgia | a pain in the hand that is not traumatic. |
| ~ distress | extreme physical pain.; "the patient appeared to be in distress" |
| ~ dysmenorrhea | painful menstruation. |
| ~ glossalgia, glossodynia | pain in the tongue. |
| ~ growing pains | pain in muscles or joints sometimes experienced by children and often attributed to rapid growth. |
| ~ haemorrhoid, hemorrhoid, piles | pain caused by venous swelling at or inside the anal sphincter. |
| ~ keratalgia | pain in the cornea. |
| ~ labor pain | pain and discomfort associated with contractions of the uterus during labor. |
| ~ mastalgia | pain in the breast. |
| ~ melagra | rheumatic or myalgic pains in the arms or legs. |
| ~ meralgia | pain in the thigh. |
| ~ metralgia | pain in the uterus. |
| ~ myalgia, myodynia | pain in a muscle or group of muscles. |
| ~ nephralgia | pain in the kidney (usually felt in the loins). |
| ~ neuralgia, neuralgy | acute spasmodic pain along the course of one or more nerves. |
| ~ odynophagia | severe pain on swallowing due to a disorder of the esophagus. |
| ~ orchidalgia | pain in the testes. |
| ~ pang | a sharp spasm of pain. |
| ~ pang, sting | a mental pain or distress.; "a pang of conscience" |
| ~ photalgia, photophobia | pain in the eye resulting from exposure to bright light (often associated with albinism). |
| ~ costalgia, pleuralgia, pleurodynia | pain in the chest caused by inflammation of the muscles between the ribs. |
| ~ podalgia | foot pain. |
| ~ proctalgia | pain in the rectum. |
| ~ referred pain | pain that is felt at a place in the body different from the injured or diseased part where the pain would be expected.; "angina pectoris can cause referred pain in the left shoulder"; "pain in the right shoulder can be referred pain from gallbladder disease" |
| ~ renal colic | sharp pain in the lower back that radiates into the groin; associated with the passage of a renal calculus through the ureter. |
| ~ smart, smarting, smartness | a kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a sore. |
| ~ sting, stinging | a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung.; "the sting of death"; "he felt the stinging of nettles" |
| ~ stitch | a sharp spasm of pain in the side resulting from running. |
| ~ soreness, tenderness, rawness | a pain that is felt (as when the area is touched).; "the best results are generally obtained by inserting the needle into the point of maximum tenderness"; "after taking a cold, rawness of the larynx and trachea come on" |
| ~ thermalgesia | pain caused by heat. |
| ~ throb | a deep pulsating type of pain. |
| ~ torment, torture | unbearable physical pain. |
| ~ ulalgia | pain in the gums. |
| ~ urodynia | pain during urination. |
| n. (feeling) | 2. pain, painfulness | emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid.; "the pain of loneliness" |
| ~ feeling | the experiencing of affective and emotional states.; "she had a feeling of euphoria"; "he had terrible feelings of guilt"; "I disliked him and the feeling was mutual" |
| ~ growing pains | emotional distress arising during adolescence. |
| ~ unpleasantness | the feeling caused by disagreeable stimuli; one pole of a continuum of states of feeling. |
| ~ mental anguish | sustained dull painful emotion. |
| ~ hurt, suffering | feelings of mental or physical pain. |
| ~ distress, hurt, suffering | psychological suffering.; "the death of his wife caused him great distress" |
| n. (cognition) | 3. pain, pain sensation, painful sensation | a somatic sensation of acute discomfort.; "as the intensity increased the sensation changed from tickle to pain" |
| ~ somaesthesia, somatesthesia, somatic sensation, somesthesia | the perception of tactual or proprioceptive or gut sensations.; "he relied on somesthesia to warn him of pressure changes" |
| ~ mittelschmerz | pain in the area of the ovary that is felt at the time of ovulation (usually midway through the menstrual cycle). |
| ~ phantom limb pain | pain felt by an amputee that seems to be located in the missing limb. |
| ~ twinge | a sharp stab of pain. |
| n. (person) | 4. nuisance, pain, pain in the neck | a bothersome annoying person.; "that kid is a terrible pain" |
| ~ disagreeable person, unpleasant person | a person who is not pleasant or agreeable. |
| n. (cognition) | 5. annoyance, bother, botheration, infliction, pain, pain in the ass, pain in the neck | something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness.; "washing dishes was a nuisance before we got a dish washer"; "a bit of a bother"; "he's not a friend, he's an infliction" |
| ~ negative stimulus | a stimulus with undesirable consequences. |
| ~ nuisance | (law) a broad legal concept including anything that disturbs the reasonable use of your property or endangers life and health or is offensive. |
| ~ irritant, thorn | something that causes irritation and annoyance.; "he's a thorn in my flesh" |
| ~ plague | an annoyance.; "those children are a damn plague" |
| v. (body) | 6. ail, pain, trouble | cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed. |
| ~ hurt | give trouble or pain to.; "This exercise will hurt your back" |
| ~ recrudesce, break out, erupt | become raw or open.; "He broke out in hives"; "My skin breaks out when I eat strawberries"; "Such boils tend to recrudesce" |
| v. (emotion) | 7. anguish, hurt, pain | cause emotional anguish or make miserable.; "It pains me to see my children not being taught well in school" |
| ~ discomfit, discompose, untune, disconcert, upset | cause to lose one's composure. |
| ~ break someone's heart | cause deep emotional pain and grief to somebody.; "The young man broke the girl's heart when he told her was going to marry her best friend" |
| ~ agonise, agonize | cause to agonize. |
| ~ suffer | experience (emotional) pain.; "Every time her husband gets drunk, she suffers" |
| ~ try | give pain or trouble to.; "I've been sorely tried by these students" |
| ~ excruciate, torment, torture, rack | torment emotionally or mentally. |
| stinging | | |
| n. (state) | 1. sting, stinging | a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung.; "the sting of death"; "he felt the stinging of nettles" |
| ~ hurting, pain | a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder.; "the patient developed severe pain and distension" |
| adj. | 2. cutting, edged, stinging | (of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character.; "cutting remarks"; "edged satire"; "a stinging comment" |
| ~ unkind | lacking kindness.; "a thoughtless and unkind remark"; "the unkindest cut of all" |
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