English > pain: 7 senses > noun 1, state| Meaning | A symptom of some physical hurt or disorder. |
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| Example | "the patient developed severe pain and distension" |
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| Synonym | hurting |
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| Narrower | ache, aching | A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain |
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| agony, suffering, excruciation | 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 |
| chest pain | pain in the chest |
| chiralgia | A pain in the hand that is not traumatic |
| colic, intestinal colic, gripes, griping | Acute abdominal pain (especially in infants) |
| distress | extreme / 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) |
| pleurodynia, pleuralgia, costalgia | 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 |
| smart, smarting, smartness | A kind of pain such as that caused by a wound / wound or a burn or a sore |
| sting, stinging | A kind of pain |
| stitch | A sharp spasm of pain in the side resulting from running |
| tenderness, soreness, rawness | A pain that is felt (as when the area is touched) |
| thermalgesia | pain caused by heat |
| throb | A deep pulsating type of pain |
| torture, torment | Unbearable physical pain |
| ulalgia | pain in the gums |
| urodynia | pain during urination |
| Broader | symptom | (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease |
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| Spanish | dolor |
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| Catalan | dolor, mal |
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| Verbs | pain | cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed |
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| pain | cause emotional anguish / anguish or make miserable |
English > pain: 7 senses > verb 2, emotion| Meaning | Cause emotional anguish / anguish or make miserable. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s somebody |
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| Model | The bad news will pain him |
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| Example | "It pains me to see my children not being taught well in school" |
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| Synonyms | anguish, hurt |
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| Cause to | suffer | Experience (emotional) pain |
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| Narrower | agonize, agonise | Cause to agonize |
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| break someone's heart | Cause deep emotional pain and grief to somebody |
| torment, torture, excruciate, rack | torment emotionally or mentally |
| try | Give pain or trouble to |
| Broader | upset, discompose, untune, disconcert, discomfit | Cause to lose one's composure |
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| Spanish | afligir, angustiar, atormentar, doler |
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| Catalan | afligir, anguniejar, colpir, fer mal |
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| Nouns | pain | something or someone that causes trouble |
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| pain | emotional distress |
| pain | a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder |
