Definition of pain Pain
/pejĖn/ - [peyn] - pain
We found 28 definitions of pain from 9 different sources.
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WordNet
NounPlural: pains |
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| pain - a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder; "the patient developed severe pain and distension" | ||
| hurting | ||
| symptom anything that accompanies X and is regarded as an indication of X's existence | ||
| ache, aching a dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain | ||
| agony, excruciation, suffering intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain; "an agony of doubt"; "the torments of the damned" | ||
| arthralgia pain in a joint or joints | ||
| burn, burning damage inflicted by 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 the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim; "Originally distress was a landlord's remedy against a tenant for unpaid rents or property damage but now the landlord is given a landlord's lien" | ||
| dysmenorrhea painful menstruation | ||
| glossalgia, glossodynia pain in the tongue | ||
| growing pains problems that arise in enlarging an enterprise (especially in the early stages) | ||
| haemorrhoid, hemorrhoid, piles pain caused by venous swelling at or inside the anal sphincter | ||
| 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 sudden sharp feeling; "pangs of regret"; "she felt a stab of excitement"; "twinges of conscience" | ||
| pang, sting a sudden sharp feeling; "pangs of regret"; "she felt a stab of excitement"; "twinges of conscience" | ||
| 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; "angina pectoris can cause referred pain in the left shoulder"; "pain in the right shoulder can be referred pain from gallbladder disease" | ||
| 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 | ||
| stinging, sting a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin | ||
| stitch a link or loop or knot made by an implement in knitting, crocheting, embroidery, or sewing | ||
| soreness, rawness, tenderness a chilly dampness; "the rawness of the midnight air" | ||
| thermalgesia pain caused by heat | ||
| throb an instance of rapid strong pulsation (of the heart); "he felt a throbbing in his head" | ||
| torture, torment the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason; "it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession" | ||
| ulalgia pain in the gums | ||
| pain - emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid; "the pain of loneliness" | ||
| painfulness | ||
| pleasance, pleasure a pleasant and secluded part of a garden; usually attached to a mansion | ||
| feeling the experiencing of affective and emotional states; "she had a feeling of euphoria"; "he had terrible feelings of guilt"; "I disliked him and the feeling was mutual" | ||
| growing pains problems that arise in enlarging an enterprise (especially in the early stages) | ||
| unpleasantness the quality of giving displeasure; "the recent unpleasantness of the weather" | ||
| mental anguish sustained dull painful emotion | ||
| suffering, hurt feelings of mental or physical pain | ||
| pain - a somatic sensation of acute discomfort; "as the intensity increased the sensation changed from tickle to pain" | ||
| pain sensation, painful sensation | ||
| somatic sensation, somaesthesia, somatesthesia, somesthesia the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs | ||
| 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 | ||
| pain - a bothersome annoying person; "that kid is a terrible pain" | ||
| pain in the neck, nuisance | ||
| pain - 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" | ||
| annoyance, bother, botheration, infliction, pain in the neck, pain in the ass | ||
| negative stimulus a stimulus with undesirable consequences | ||
| 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; "he's a thorn in my flesh" | ||
Verb |
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| pain - cause emotional anguish or make miserable; "It pains me to see my children not being taught well in school" | ||
| anguish, hurt | ||
| suffer feel pain or be in pain | ||
| discomfit, discompose, disconcert, untune, upset cause to be out of tune; "Don't untune that string!" | ||
| break someone's heart cause deep emotional pain and grief to somebody; "The young man broke the girl's heart when he told her was going to marry her best friend" | ||
| agonise, agonize suffer agony or anguish | ||
| try melt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities; "try the yak butter"; "render fat in a casserole" | ||
| excruciate, torture, torment, rack subject to torture; "The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible" | ||
| pain - cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed | ||
| trouble, ail | ||
| hurt give trouble or pain to; "This exercise will hurt your back" | ||
| recrudesce, break out, erupt begin suddenly and sometimes violently; "He broke out shouting" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- pain (Noun)
An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt. - pain (Noun)
The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress; sadness; grief; solicitude; disquietude. - pain (Noun)
An annoying person or thing. - pain (Verb)
To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture. - pain (Verb)
To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary š
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Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty. - pain (n.)
Any uneasy sensation in animal bodies, from slight uneasiness to extreme distress or torture, proceeding from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; bodily distress; bodily suffering; an ache; a smart. - pain (n.)
Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth. - pain (n.)
Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; grief; solicitude; anguish. - pain (n.)
See Pains, labor, effort. - pain (n.)
To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish. - pain (n.)
To put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture; as, his dinner or his wound pained him; his stomach pained him. - pain (n.)
To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve; as a child's faults pain his parents.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ī©
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pain
An unpleasant, usually localised physical sensation that is often the result of an injury, disease or other ailment. -
pain
Something which annoys.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary š
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pÄn, n. suffering coming as the punishment of evil-doing: suffering either of body or mind: anguish: great care or trouble taken in doing anything: (pl.) labour: care: trouble: the throes of childbirth.āv.t. to cause suffering to: to distress: to torment: to grieve.āadjs. Pained, showing or expressing pain: (B.) in pain, in labour; Painā²ful, full of pain: causing pain: requiring labour, pain, or care: (arch.) hard-working, painstaking: distressing: difficult.āadv. Painā²fully.ān. Painā²fulness.āadj. Painā²less, without pain.āadv. Painā²lessly.āns. Painā²lessness; Painsā²taker, one who takes pains or care: a laborious worker.āadj. Painsā²taking, taking pains or care: laborious: diligent.ān. careful labour: diligence.āUnder pain of, subject to the penalty of. [Fr. peineāL. pÅna, satisfactionāGr. poinÄ, penalty.]
Foolish DictionaryThe Foolish Dictionary š¤”
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pain
A sensation experienced on receiving a Punch, particularly the London one.
Proverbs DictionaryProverbs Dictionary š
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Pain is forgotten where gain follows. -
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Great pain and little gain make a man soon weary.
Wikipedia 
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Pain is a symptom of being hurt or sick. It is a bad sensation that is physical "and" emotional.
Most pain starts when part of the body is hurt. Nerves in that part send messages to the brain. Those messages tell the brain that the body is being damaged. Pain is not just the message the nerve sends to the brain. It is the bad emotion felt because of that damage.
The message that the nerve sends to the brain is called "nociception". What is experienced "because of" the nociception is pain.
Kinds of pain.
Pain can be "acute" or "chronic". Acute means it only happens a short time. Chronic means the pain lasts a long time.
Pain can also happen when there is no underlying injury or cause. Pain can happen just because the nerves do not work right. This is called "neuropathic" pain.
Treatments for pain.
For most pain, the best treatment is to stop the damage that makes the pain. If the ankle is sprained, doctors tells the person not to walk on it. They tell them to put ice on it. This helps the injury stop. For an ulcer in the stomach, doctors stop the acid made in the stomach. This helps the ulcer to heal.
There are doctors who specialize in pain management. These are usually anesthesiologists but may also have any one of a number of underlying areas of specialization, such as neurology, physiatry, or internal medicine.
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