pain
has definitions from the fields of psychology,medicine
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[ noun ] (medicine) a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder
Synonyms Examples "the patient developed severe pain and distension" Used in print (Kenneth Allsop, The Bootleggers and Their Era...)Landesco thought him `` just a superior sort of plugugly '' but he was , in_fact , with his aggression and hostility , and nerveless indifference to risking or administering pain , a casebook psychopath . (Dolores Hitchens, Footsteps in the Night....)For a moment he thought_of going_into Crosson 's office to explain that he had to leave , but there was now such a pain in his chest , such a pounding in his head , that he decided to let it go . (Alex Gordon, The Cipher....)A shot caught him and straightened him up in screaming pain ; a following volley of shots shattered glass , ripped the ceiling , and sent him lurching heavily from the table . (Edwin Booth, Outlaw Town....)With a roar of pain and fury Jess made his attack . Pain shout up Curt 's arm clear to the shoulder , but Jess seemed hardly aware that he had been hit . Related terms symptom agony ache sting torture hemorrhoid burn mastalgia neuralgia chiralgia dysmenorrhea stitch chest_pain arthralgia odynophagia meralgia proctalgia pang throb pang tenderness metralgia melagra growing_pains distress glossalgia keratalgia myalgia labor_pain nephralgia pleurodynia orchidalgia photalgia podalgia colic referred_pain renal_colic thermalgesia causalgia ulalgia urodynia smart hurt afflict |
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[ noun ] emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid
Synonyms Examples "the pain of loneliness" Used in print (Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)By preying on the sick , by playing callously on the hopes of the desperate , by causing the sufferer to delay proper medical_care , these medical ghouls create pain and misery by their very activity . (Christopher Davis, First Family....)At these times he felt a kind of pain in his upper chest , but it was an objective pain , in_no_way different from others in intensity and not different in kind ; it was like the bandaged wound on the back of his head which occasionally throbbed ; it was merely another part of his weakness . At these times he felt a kind of pain in his upper chest , but it was an objective pain , in_no_way different from others in intensity and not different in kind ; it was like the bandaged wound on the back of his head which occasionally throbbed ; it was merely another part of his weakness . (Glayds H. Barr, The Master of Geneva....)Loneliness tore through him like a physical pain whenever he thought_of Peter_Robert , Nerien , Nicholas_Cop , Martin_Bucer , and even the compromising Louis_du_Tillet . (Ann Hebson, The Lattimer Legend....)Joel came and sat mutely with her , sharing her pain and anguish , averting his eyes from the ice_packs on her bosom . Related terms pleasure feeling distress suffering pang mental_anguish growing_pains unpleasantness |
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[ noun ] (psychology) a somatic sensation of acute discomfort
Synonyms Examples "as the intensity increased the sensation changed from tickle to pain" Used in print (Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)After his pains got_worse , Tom decided to see a real doctor , from whom he learned he was suffering from cancer of the lung . (E. Gellhorn, "Prolegomena to a theory of the emotions"...)In a conditioning experiment , he demonstrated the antagonism between feeding and pain . The pain became thus the symbol for food and elicited salivary secretion ( conditioned_reflex ) . Even when the intensity of the shocks was increased gradually , it failed to evoke any signs of pain . Since strong nociceptive stimuli produce an experimental neurosis during which the animals fail to eat in the experimental situation , Wolpe thought that he could utilize the feeding pain antagonism to inhibit the neurotic symptoms through feeding . Related terms somesthesia somaesthesia phantom_limb_pain twinge mittelschmerz afflict |
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[ verb ] cause bodily suffering to
Used in print (David Alexander, Bloodstain....)He had turned his ankle slightly , and it pained him . Related terms |
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[ noun ] a bothersome annoying person
Synonyms Examples "that kid is a terrible pain" Related terms |
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[ noun ] something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness
Examples "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" |
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