analgesic anodyne painkiller pain pill | a medicine used to relieve pain |
pain threshold | the lowest intensity of stimulation at which pain is experienced, some people have much higher pain thresholds than do other people |
pain pain sensation painful sensation | a somatic sensation of acute discomfort, as the intensity increased the sensation changed from tickle to pain |
phantom limb pain | pain felt by an amputee that seems to be located in the missing limb |
annoyance bother botheration pain infliction pain in the neck pain in the ass | 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 |
pleasure principle pleasure-pain principle pleasure-unpleasure principle | (psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id, the principle that an infant seeks gratification and fails to distinguish fantasy from reality |
pain painfulness | emotional distress, a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid, the pain of loneliness |
pain pain in the neck nuisance | a bothersome annoying person, that kid is a terrible pain |
squall line | a cold front along which squalls or thunderstorms are likely |
squall | sudden violent winds, often accompanied by precipitation |
line squall | a squall advancing along a front that forms a definite line |
pain unit | a unit measuring the intensity of pain |
pain hurting | a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder, the patient developed severe pain and distension |
chest pain | pain in the chest |
lumbago lumbar pain | backache affecting the lumbar region or lower back, can be caused by muscle strain or arthritis or vascular insufficiency or a ruptured intervertebral disc |
labor pain | pain and discomfort associated with contractions of the uterus during labor |
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 |
trouble ail pain | cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed |
shout shout out cry call yell scream holler hollo squall | utter a sudden loud cry, she cried with pain when the doctor inserted the needle, I yelled to her from the window but she couldn't hear me |
squall waul wawl | make high-pitched, whiney noises |
pain anguish hurt | cause emotional anguish or make miserable, It pains me to see my children not being taught well in school |
squall | blow in a squall, When it squalls, a prudent sailor reefs his sails |
pain-free unpainful | not accompanied by pain sensations, pain-free surgery |
squally squalling | characterized by short periods of noisy commotion, a home life that has been extraordinarily squally |