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pain

Noun

A symptom of some physical hurt or disorder (synset 114346126)
"the patient developed severe pain and distension"

is a type of: symptom - (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease
subtypes:
- ache, aching - a dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain
- agony, excruciation, suffering - 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- stitch - a sharp spasm of pain in the side resulting from running
- rawness, soreness, tenderness - a pain that is felt (as when the area is touched)
- 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
same as: hurting
Emotional distress;
A fundamental feeling that people try to avoid (synset 107509503)
"the pain of loneliness"

is a type of: feeling - the experiencing of affective and emotional states
subtypes:
- 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
same as: painfulness
A somatic sensation of acute discomfort (synset 105732639)
"as the intensity increased the sensation changed from tickle to pain"

is a type of: somaesthesia, somatesthesia, somatic sensation, somesthesia - the perception of tactual or proprioceptive or gut sensations
subtypes:
- 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
same as: pain sensation, painful sensation
A bothersome annoying person (synset 110411212)
"that kid is a terrible pain"

is a type of: disagreeable person, unpleasant person - a person who is not pleasant or agreeable

same as: nuisance, pain in the neck
Something or someone that causes trouble;
A source of unhappiness (synset 105838383)
"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"

is a type of: negative stimulus - a stimulus with undesirable consequences
subtypes:
- 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
- plague - an annoyance
same as: annoyance, bother, botheration, infliction, pain in the ass, pain in the neck

Verb

Cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed (synset 200070587)
is a type of: hurt - give trouble or pain to

subtypes: break out, erupt, recrudesce - become raw or open

same as: ail, trouble
Cause emotional anguish or make miserable (synset 201796596)
"It pains me to see my children not being taught well in school"

causes: suffer - experience (emotional) pain

is a type of: discomfit, discompose, disconcert, untune, upset - cause to lose one's composure
subtypes:
- break someone's heart - cause deep emotional pain and grief to somebody
- agonise, agonize - cause to agonize
- try - give pain or trouble to
- excruciate, rack, torment, torture - torment emotionally or mentally
same as: anguish, hurt

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