painful sensation

Noun
  1. 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, pain sensation

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