| ill | | |
| n. (state) | 1. ailment, complaint, ill | an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining. |
| ~ disorder, upset | a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning.; "the doctor prescribed some medicine for the disorder"; "everyone gets stomach upsets from time to time" |
| ~ pip | a minor nonspecific ailment. |
| ~ kinetosis, motion sickness | the state of being dizzy or nauseated because of the motions that occur while traveling in or on a moving vehicle. |
| adj. | 2. ill, sick | affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function.; "ill from the monotony of his suffering" |
| ~ unfit | not in good physical or mental condition; out of condition.; "fat and very unfit"; "certified as unfit for army service"; "drunk and unfit for service" |
| ~ unhealthy | not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind.; "unhealthy ulcers" |
| ~ afflicted, stricken | grievously affected especially by disease. |
| ~ aguish | affected by ague. |
| ~ ailing, indisposed, peaked, poorly, under the weather, unwell, sickly, seedy | somewhat ill or prone to illness.; "my poor ailing grandmother"; "feeling a bit indisposed today"; "you look a little peaked"; "feeling poorly"; "a sickly child"; "is unwell and can't come to work" |
| ~ air sick, airsick, carsick, seasick | experiencing motion sickness. |
| ~ autistic | characteristic of or affected with autism.; "autistic behavior"; "autistic children" |
| ~ bedfast, bedrid, bedridden, sick-abed | confined to bed (by illness). |
| ~ liverish, livery, bilious | suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress. |
| ~ bronchitic | suffering from or prone to bronchitis. |
| ~ consumptive | afflicted with or associated with pulmonary tuberculosis.; "a consumptive patient"; "a consumptive cough" |
| ~ convalescent, recovering | returning to health after illness or debility.; "convalescent children are difficult to keep in bed" |
| ~ delirious, hallucinating | experiencing delirium. |
| ~ diabetic | suffering from diabetes. |
| ~ dizzy, giddy, vertiginous, woozy | having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling.; "had a dizzy spell"; "a dizzy pinnacle"; "had a headache and felt giddy"; "a giddy precipice"; "feeling woozy from the blow on his head"; "a vertiginous climb up the face of the cliff" |
| ~ dyspeptic | suffering from dyspepsia. |
| ~ light-headed, lightheaded, swooning, faint, light | weak and likely to lose consciousness.; "suddenly felt faint from the pain"; "was sick and faint from hunger"; "felt light in the head"; "a swooning fit"; "light-headed with wine"; "light-headed from lack of sleep" |
| ~ feverous, feverish | having or affected by a fever. |
| ~ funny | experiencing odd bodily sensations.; "told the doctor about the funny sensations in her chest" |
| ~ gouty | suffering from gout. |
| ~ green | looking pale and unhealthy.; "you're looking green"; "green around the gills" |
| ~ laid low, stricken | put out of action (by illness). |
| ~ laid up | ill and usually confined.; "laid up with a bad cold" |
| ~ milk-sick | affected with or related to milk sickness. |
| ~ nauseated, sickish, nauseous, queasy, sick | feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit. |
| ~ palsied | affected with palsy or uncontrollable tremor.; "palsied hands" |
| ~ paralyzed, paralytic | affected with paralysis. |
| ~ paraplegic | suffering complete paralysis of the lower half of the body usually resulting from damage to the spinal cord. |
| ~ rachitic, rickety | affected with, suffering from, or characteristic of rickets.; "rickety limbs and joints"; "a rachitic patient" |
| ~ scrofulous | afflicted with scrofula. |
| ~ sneezy | inclined to sneeze. |
| ~ spastic | suffering from spastic paralysis.; "a spastic child" |
| ~ tuberculous, tubercular | constituting or afflicted with or caused by tuberculosis or the tubercle bacillus.; "a tubercular child"; "tuberculous patients"; "tubercular meningitis" |
| ~ unhealed | not healed.; "an unhealed wound" |
| ~ upset | mildly physically distressed.; "an upset stomach" |
| adj. | 3. ill | resulting in suffering or adversity.; "ill effects"; "it's an ill wind that blows no good" |
| ~ harmful | causing or capable of causing harm.; "too much sun is harmful to the skin"; "harmful effects of smoking" |
| adj. | 4. ill | distressing.; "ill manners"; "of ill repute" |
| ~ bad | having undesirable or negative qualities.; "a bad report card"; "his sloppy appearance made a bad impression"; "a bad little boy"; "clothes in bad shape"; "a bad cut"; "bad luck"; "the news was very bad"; "the reviews were bad"; "the pay is bad"; "it was a bad light for reading"; "the movie was a bad choice" |
| adj. | 5. ill | indicating hostility or enmity.; "you certainly did me an ill turn"; "ill feelings"; "ill will" |
| ~ hostile | characterized by enmity or ill will.; "a hostile nation"; "a hostile remark"; "hostile actions" |
| adj. | 6. ill, inauspicious, ominous | presaging ill fortune.; "ill omens"; "ill predictions"; "my words with inauspicious thunderings shook heaven"; "a dead and ominous silence prevailed"; "a by-election at a time highly unpropitious for the Government" |
| ~ unpropitious | not propitious. |
| adv. | 7. badly, ill, poorly | (`ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well.; "he was ill prepared"; "it ill befits a man to betray old friends"; "the car runs badly"; "he performed badly on the exam"; "the team played poorly"; "ill-fitting clothes"; "an ill-conceived plan" |
| ~ combining form | a bound form used only in compounds.; "`hemato-' is a combining form in words like `hematology'" |
| adv. | 8. badly, ill | unfavorably or with disapproval.; "tried not to speak ill of the dead"; "thought badly of him for his lack of concern" |
| adv. | 9. ill | with difficulty or inconvenience; scarcely or hardly.; "we can ill afford to buy a new car just now" |
| indisposed | | |
| adj. | 1. ailing, indisposed, peaked, poorly, seedy, sickly, under the weather, unwell | somewhat ill or prone to illness.; "my poor ailing grandmother"; "feeling a bit indisposed today"; "you look a little peaked"; "feeling poorly"; "a sickly child"; "is unwell and can't come to work" |
| ~ ill, sick | affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function.; "ill from the monotony of his suffering" |
| adj. | 2. antipathetic, antipathetical, averse, indisposed, loath, loth | (usually followed by `to') strongly opposed.; "antipathetic to new ideas"; "averse to taking risks"; "loath to go on such short notice"; "clearly indisposed to grant their request" |
| ~ disinclined | unwilling because of mild dislike or disapproval.; "disinclined to say anything to anybody" |
| morbid | | |
| adj. | 1. morbid | suggesting an unhealthy mental state.; "morbid interest in death"; "morbid curiosity" |
| ~ unwholesome | detrimental to physical or moral well-being.; "unwholesome food"; "unwholesome habits like smoking" |
| adj. | 2. ghoulish, morbid | suggesting the horror of death and decay.; "morbid details" |
| ~ offensive | unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses.; "offensive odors" |
| adj. | 3. diseased, morbid, pathologic, pathological | caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology.; "diseased tonsils"; "a morbid growth"; "pathologic tissue"; "pathological bodily processes" |
| ~ unhealthy | not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind.; "unhealthy ulcers" |
| sickly | | |
| adj. | 1. sallow, sickly | unhealthy looking. |
| ~ unhealthy | not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind.; "unhealthy ulcers" |
| unhealthy | | |
| adj. | 1. unhealthy | not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind.; "unhealthy ulcers" |
| ~ unfit | not in good physical or mental condition; out of condition.; "fat and very unfit"; "certified as unfit for army service"; "drunk and unfit for service" |
| ~ angry | severely inflamed and painful.; "an angry sore" |
| ~ arthritic, rheumatic, rheumatoid, rheumy, creaky | of or pertaining to arthritis.; "my creaky old joints"; "rheumy with age and grief" |
| ~ asthmatic, wheezing, wheezy | relating to breathing with a whistling sound. |
| ~ unfit, unsound, bad | physically unsound or diseased.; "has a bad back"; "a bad heart"; "bad teeth"; "an unsound limb"; "unsound teeth" |
| ~ blebby, blistery | covered with small blisters. |
| ~ intumescent, tumescent, puffy, tumid, turgid | abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas.; "hungry children with bloated stomachs"; "he had a grossly distended stomach"; "eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids"; "swollen hands"; "tumescent tissue"; "puffy tumid flesh" |
| ~ bloodshot | (of an eye) reddened as a result of locally congested blood vessels; inflamed.; "bloodshot eyes" |
| ~ cankerous, ulcerated, ulcerous | having an ulcer or canker. |
| ~ carbuncled, carbuncular | afflicted with or resembling a carbuncle. |
| ~ carious | (of teeth) affected with cavities or decay. |
| ~ caseous | of damaged or necrotic tissue; cheeselike. |
| ~ chilblained | having chilblains.; "her poor chilblained hands" |
| ~ colicky, flatulent, gassy | suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal. |
| ~ cytomegalic | of or relating to or characterized by greatly enlarged cells. |
| ~ dehydrated | suffering from excessive loss of water from the body.; "fever resulted from becoming dehydrated"; "was dehydrated after the marathon" |
| ~ diseased, pathologic, morbid, pathological | caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology.; "diseased tonsils"; "a morbid growth"; "pathologic tissue"; "pathological bodily processes" |
| ~ dropsical, edematous | swollen with an excessive accumulation of fluid. |
| ~ enlarged | larger than normal.; "enlarged joints" |
| ~ foamy, frothing, foaming | producing or covered with lathery sweat or saliva from exhaustion or disease.; "the rabid animal's frothing mouth" |
| ~ gangrenous, mortified | suffering from tissue death. |
| ~ inflamed | resulting from inflammation; hot and swollen and reddened.; "eyes inflamed with crying" |
| ~ inflammatory | characterized or caused by inflammation.; "an inflammatory process"; "an inflammatory response" |
| ~ ingrowing, ingrown | growing abnormally into the flesh.; "an ingrown toenail" |
| ~ icteric, jaundiced, yellow | affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc. |
| ~ membrane-forming, membranous | characterized by formation of a membrane (or something resembling a membrane).; "membranous gastritis" |
| ~ mental | affected by a disorder of the mind.; "a mental patient"; "mental illness" |
| ~ pro-inflammatory, proinflammatory | tending to cause inflammation. |
| ~ sallow, sickly | unhealthy looking. |
| ~ sore-eyed | having sore eyes; suffering from pinkeye or conjunctivitis. |
| ~ sunburned, sunburnt | suffering from overexposure to direct sunlight. |
| ~ varicose | abnormally swollen or knotty.; "varicose veins" |
| ~ windburned, windburnt | suffering from windburn. |
| ~ frail | physically weak.; "an invalid's frail body" |
| ~ ill, sick | affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function.; "ill from the monotony of his suffering" |
| ~ unwholesome | detrimental to physical or moral well-being.; "unwholesome food"; "unwholesome habits like smoking" |
| adj. | 2. insalubrious, unhealthful, unhealthy | detrimental to health. |
| ~ unwholesome | detrimental to physical or moral well-being.; "unwholesome food"; "unwholesome habits like smoking" |
| adj. | 3. unhealthy | not conducive to good health.; "an unhealthy diet of fast foods"; "an unhealthy climate" |
| ~ unhealthful | detrimental to good health.; "unhealthful air pollution"; "unhealthful conditions in old apartments with peeling lead-based paint" |
| invalid | | |
| n. (person) | 1. invalid, shut-in | someone who is incapacitated by a chronic illness or injury. |
| ~ homebound | people who are confined to their homes. |
| ~ diseased person, sick person, sufferer | a person suffering from an illness. |
| v. (social) | 2. invalid | force to retire, remove from active duty, as of firemen. |
| ~ remove | remove from a position or an office. |
| v. (body) | 3. disable, handicap, incapacitate, invalid | injure permanently.; "He was disabled in a car accident" |
| ~ injure, wound | cause injuries or bodily harm to. |
| ~ hock | disable by cutting the hock. |
| adj. | 4. invalid | having no cogency or legal force.; "invalid reasoning"; "an invalid driver's license" |
| ~ illegitimate | of marriages and offspring; not recognized as lawful. |
| ~ uncollectible, bad | not capable of being collected.; "a bad (or uncollectible) debt" |
| ~ fallacious, unsound | containing or based on a fallacy.; "fallacious reasoning"; "an unsound argument" |
| ~ false | erroneous and usually accidental.; "a false start"; "a false alarm" |
| ~ invalidated, nullified | deprived of legal force. |
| ~ null, void | lacking any legal or binding force.; "null and void" |
| ~ sophistical, sophistic | plausible but misleading. |
| adj. | 5. invalid | no longer valid.; "the license is invalid" |
| ~ expired | having come to an end or become void after passage of a period of time.; "an expired passport"; "caught driving with an expired license" |
| patient | | |
| n. (person) | 1. patient | a person who requires medical care.; "the number of emergency patients has grown rapidly" |
| ~ alexic | a person with alexia. |
| ~ analysand | a person undergoing psychoanalysis. |
| ~ arthritic | a person afflicted with arthritis.; "the hands of an elderly arthritic" |
| ~ case | a person requiring professional services.; "a typical case was the suburban housewife described by a marriage counselor" |
| ~ hypertensive | a person who has abnormally high blood pressure. |
| ~ hypochondriac | a patient with imaginary symptoms and ailments. |
| ~ hypotensive | a person who has abnormally low blood pressure. |
| ~ index case | the earliest documented case of a disease that is included in an epidemiological study. |
| ~ inpatient, inmate | a patient who is residing in the hospital where he is being treated. |
| ~ outpatient | a patient who does not reside in the hospital where he is being treated. |
| ~ diseased person, sick person, sufferer | a person suffering from an illness. |
| ~ vaccinee | a patient who has been vaccinated. |
| ~ doctor-patient relation | the responsibility of a physician to act in the best interests of the patient. |
| ~ nurse-patient relation | the responsibility of a nurse to act in the best interests of the patient. |
| n. (communication) | 2. affected role, patient, patient role | the semantic role of an entity that is not the agent but is directly involved in or affected by the happening denoted by the verb in the clause. |
| ~ participant role, semantic role | (linguistics) the underlying relation that a constituent has with the main verb in a clause. |
| adj. | 3. patient | enduring trying circumstances with even temper or characterized by such endurance.; "a patient smile"; "was patient with the children"; "an exact and patient scientist"; "please be patient" |
| ~ uncomplaining | not complaining.; "uncomplaining courage" |
| ~ diligent, persevering | quietly and steadily persevering especially in detail or exactness.; "a diligent (or patient) worker"; "with persevering (or patient) industry she revived the failing business" |
| ~ long-suffering, enduring | patiently bearing continual wrongs or trouble.; "an enduring disposition"; "a long-suffering and uncomplaining wife" |
| ~ forbearing, longanimous | showing patient and unruffled self-control and restraint under adversity; slow to retaliate or express resentment.; "seemly and forbearing...yet strong enough to resist aggression"; "was longanimous in the face of suffering" |
| ~ patient of, tolerant | showing the capacity for endurance.; "injustice can make us tolerant and forgiving"; "a man patient of distractions" |
| ~ unhurried | capable of accepting delay with equanimity.; "was unhurried with the small children" |
| ~ tolerant | showing respect for the rights or opinions or practices of others. |
| disease | | |
| n. (state) | 1. disease | an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning. |
| ~ illness, sickness, unwellness, malady | impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism. |
| ~ disease of the neuromuscular junction | a disease characterized by impairment of neuromuscular junctions. |
| ~ aspergillosis | disease especially in agricultural workers caused by inhalation of Aspergillus spores causing lumps in skin and ears and respiratory organs. |
| ~ anthrax | a disease of humans that is not communicable; caused by infection with Bacillus anthracis followed by septicemia. |
| ~ blackwater | any of several human or animal diseases characterized by dark urine resulting from rapid breakdown of red blood cells. |
| ~ cat scratch disease | a disease thought to be transmitted to humans by a scratch from a cat. |
| ~ complication | any disease or disorder that occurs during the course of (or because of) another disease.; "bed sores are a common complication in cases of paralysis" |
| ~ crud | an ill-defined bodily ailment.; "he said he had the crud and needed a doctor" |
| ~ endemic, endemic disease | a disease that is constantly present to a greater or lesser degree in people of a certain class or in people living in a particular location. |
| ~ enteropathy | a disease of the intestinal tract. |
| ~ incompetence | inability of a part or organ to function properly. |
| ~ kawasaki disease, mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome | an acute disease of young children characterized by a rash and swollen lymph nodes and fever; of unknown cause. |
| ~ pycnosis, pyknosis | a degenerative state of the cell nucleus. |
| ~ boutonneuse fever, indian tick fever, kenya fever, marseilles fever | a disease (common in India and around the Mediterranean area) caused by a rickettsia that is transmitted to humans by a reddish brown tick (ixodid) that lives on dogs and other mammals. |
| ~ meniere's disease | a disease of the inner ear characterized by episodes of dizziness and tinnitus and progressive hearing loss (usually unilateral). |
| ~ milk sickness | caused by consuming milk from cattle suffering from trembles. |
| ~ mimesis | any disease that shows symptoms characteristic of another disease. |
| ~ industrial disease, occupational disease | disease or disability resulting from conditions of employment (usually from long exposure to a noxious substance or from continuous repetition of certain acts). |
| ~ onychosis | any disease or disorder of the nails. |
| ~ rheumatism | any painful disorder of the joints or muscles or connective tissues. |
| ~ periarteritis nodosa, polyarteritis nodosa | a progressive disease of connective tissue that is characterized by nodules along arteries; nodules may block the artery and result in inadequate circulation to the particular area. |
| ~ periodontal disease, periodontitis | a disease that attacks the gum and bone and around the teeth. |
| ~ liver disease | a disease affecting the liver. |
| ~ communicable disease | a disease that can be communicated from one person to another. |
| ~ exanthema subitum, pseudorubella, roseola infantilis, roseola infantum | a viral disease of infants and young children; characterized by abrupt high fever and mild sore throat; a few days later there is a faint pinkish rash that lasts for a few hours to a few days. |
| ~ respiratory disease, respiratory disorder, respiratory illness | a disease affecting the respiratory system. |
| ~ congenital disease, genetic abnormality, genetic defect, genetic disease, genetic disorder, hereditary condition, hereditary disease, inherited disease, inherited disorder | a disease or disorder that is inherited genetically. |
| ~ inflammatory disease | a disease characterized by inflammation. |
| ~ autoimmune disease, autoimmune disorder | any of a large group of diseases characterized by abnormal functioning of the immune system that causes your immune system to produce antibodies against your own tissues. |
| ~ deficiency disease | any disease caused by a lack of an essential nutrient (as a vitamin or mineral). |
| ~ cystic breast disease, cystic mastitis, fibrocystic breast disease, fibrocystic disease of the breast | the presence of one or more cysts in a breast. |
| ~ goiter, goitre, struma, thyromegaly | abnormally enlarged thyroid gland; can result from underproduction or overproduction of hormone or from a deficiency of iodine in the diet. |
| ~ pappataci fever, phlebotomus, sandfly fever | a mild viral disease transmitted by the bite of the sand fly Phlebotomus papatasii. |
| ~ disease of the skin, skin disease, skin disorder | a disease affecting the skin. |
| ~ malignance, malignancy | (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death. |
| ~ eye disease | any disease of the eye. |
| ~ animal disease | a disease that typically does not affect human beings. |
| ~ plant disease | a disease that affects plants. |
| ~ symptom | (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease. |
| ~ sign | (medicine) any objective evidence of the presence of a disorder or disease.; "there were no signs of asphyxiation" |
| ~ syndrome | a pattern of symptoms indicative of some disease. |
| ~ ozaena, ozena | a chronic disease of the nose characterized by a foul-smelling nasal discharge and atrophy of nasal structures. |
| ~ filariasis | a disease caused by nematodes in the blood or tissues of the body causing blockage of lymphatic vessels. |
| illness | | |
| n. (state) | 1. illness, malady, sickness, unwellness | impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism. |
| ~ condition | an illness, disease, or other medical problem.; "a heart condition"; "a skin condition" |
| ~ health problem, ill health, unhealthiness | a state in which you are unable to function normally and without pain. |
| ~ ague | a fit of shivering or shaking. |
| ~ amyloidosis | a disorder characterized by deposit of amyloid in organs or tissues; often secondary to chronic rheumatoid arthritis or tuberculosis or multiple myeloma. |
| ~ anuresis, anuria | inability to urinate. |
| ~ catastrophic illness | severe illness requiring prolonged hospitalization or recovery; usually involves high costs for hospitals and doctors and medicines. |
| ~ collapse, prostration | an abrupt failure of function or complete physical exhaustion.; "the commander's prostration demoralized his men" |
| ~ bends, caisson disease, decompression sickness, aeroembolism, air embolism, gas embolism | pain resulting from rapid change in pressure. |
| ~ food poisoning, gastrointestinal disorder | illness caused by poisonous or contaminated food. |
| ~ lead poisoning, plumbism, saturnism | toxic condition produced by the absorption of excessive lead into the system. |
| ~ disease | an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning. |
| ~ hypermotility | excessive movement; especially excessive motility of the gastrointestinal tract. |
| ~ indisposition | a slight illness. |
| ~ ozone sickness | illness that can occur to persons exposed to ozone in high-altitude aircraft; characterized by sleepiness and headache and chest pains and itchiness. |
| ~ toxaemia, toxaemia of pregnancy, toxemia, toxemia of pregnancy | an abnormal condition of pregnancy characterized by hypertension and edema and protein in the urine. |
| ~ growth | (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor). |
| 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. |
| sickness | | |
| n. (state) | 1. sickness | defectiveness or unsoundness.; "drugs have become a sickness they cannot cure"; "a great sickness of his judgment" |
| ~ defectiveness, faultiness | the state of being defective. |
| n. (state) | 2. nausea, sickness | the state that precedes vomiting. |
| ~ kinetosis, motion sickness | the state of being dizzy or nauseated because of the motions that occur while traveling in or on a moving vehicle. |
| ~ symptom | (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease. |
| ~ morning sickness | nausea early in the day; a characteristic symptom in the early months of pregnancy. |
| ~ queasiness, squeamishness, qualm | a mild state of nausea. |
| ache | | |
| n. (state) | 1. ache, aching | a dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain. |
| ~ hurting, pain | a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder.; "the patient developed severe pain and distension" |
| ~ odontalgia, toothache | an ache localized in or around a tooth. |
| ~ backache | an ache localized in the back. |
| ~ cephalalgia, head ache, headache | pain in the head caused by dilation of cerebral arteries or muscle contractions or a reaction to drugs. |
| ~ bellyache, gastralgia, stomach ache, stomachache | an ache localized in the stomach or abdominal region. |
| ~ earache, otalgia | an ache localized in the middle or inner ear. |
| v. (perception) | 2. ache, hurt, suffer | feel physical pain.; "Were you hurting after the accident?" |
| ~ perceive, comprehend | to become aware of through the senses.; "I could perceive the ship coming over the horizon" |
| ~ catch, get | suffer from the receipt of.; "She will catch hell for this behavior!" |
| ~ twinge | feel a sudden sharp, local pain. |
| ~ twinge, prick, sting | cause a stinging pain.; "The needle pricked his skin" |
| ~ kill | be the source of great pain for.; "These new shoes are killing me!" |
| v. (emotion) | 3. ache, languish, pine, yearn, yen | have a desire for something or someone who is not present.; "She ached for a cigarette"; "I am pining for my lover" |
| ~ die | languish as with love or desire.; "She dying for a cigarette"; "I was dying to leave" |
| ~ hanker, long, yearn | desire strongly or persistently. |
| v. (perception) | 4. ache, hurt, smart | be the source of pain. |
| ~ sting, bite, burn | cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort.; "The sun burned his face" |
| ~ burn | feel hot or painful.; "My eyes are burning" |
| ~ itch | have or perceive an itch.; "I'm itching--the air is so dry!" |
| ~ hunger | feel the need to eat. |
| ~ thirst | feel the need to drink. |
| ~ act up | make itself felt as a recurring pain.; "My arthritis is acting up again" |
| ~ throb | pulsate or pound with abnormal force.; "my head is throbbing"; "Her heart was throbbing" |
| ~ shoot | cause a sharp and sudden pain in.; "The pain shot up her leg" |
| ~ cause to be perceived | have perceptible qualities. |
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