Look up: pain

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   Pain
   French for Bread.
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   pain
   [n] - a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder 2. [n] - a bothersome annoying person 3. [n] - emotional distress 4. [n] - a somatic sensation of acute discomfort 5. [v] - cause anguish or make miserable
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   Pain
   is a sensation of hurting or discomfort resulting from illness, injury, heat, an allergic reaction, or something being wrong in some part of the body. It forms part of the body's warning system intended to prevent further discomfort or injury, and generally to alert the person to the need to do something about it.
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   Pain
   Pain is an unpleasant physical or emotional feeling that your body produces as a warning sign that it has been damaged.
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   Pain
   Pain: An unpleasant sensation that can range from mild, localized discomfort to agony. Pain has both physical and emotional components. The physical part of pain results from nerve stimulation. Pain may be contained to a discrete area, as in an injury, or it can be more diffuse, as in disorders like fibromyalgia. Pain is mediated by specific nerve ...
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   pain
   1)the distressing sensation excited by noxius stimuli; 2)used in the plural, generally indicating the contractions of labour Category: Medicine
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   Pain
   Pain noun [ Middle English peine , French peine , from Latin poena , penalty, punishment, torment, pain; akin to Greek ... penalty. Confer Penal , Pine to languish, Punish .] 1. Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty. Chaucer. � ...
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   Pain
   Pain transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Pained ; present participle & verbal noun Paining .] [ Middle English peinen , Old French pener , French peiner to fatigue. See Pain , noun ] 1. To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish. [ Obsolete] Wyclif (Act ...
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   pain
   <symptom> An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage. ... (16 Dec 1997) ...
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    pain
    painfulness noun emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid; `the pain of loneliness`
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    pain
    pain sensation noun a somatic sensation of acute discomfort; `as the intensity increased the sensation changed from tickle to pain`
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    pain
    pain in the neck noun a bothersome annoying person; `that kid is a terrible pain`
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    pain
    hurting noun a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder; `the patient developed severe pain and distension`
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    pain
    (pān) a feeling of distress, suffering, or agony, caused by stimulation of specialized nerve endings. Its purpose is chiefly protective; it acts as a warning that tissues are being damaged and induces the sufferer to remove or withdraw from the source. The receptors for pain stimuli (nociceptors) are free nerve end...
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    Pain
    • (n.) See Pains, labor, effort. • (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. • (n.) To put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy se...
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    pain
    a complex experience consisting of a physiological and emotional response to a noxious stimulus. Pain is a warning mechanism that protects an ... [33 related articles]
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    pain
    pain 1. The acutely unpleasant physical discomfort experienced by someone who is violently struck, injured, or ill. 2. A sensation of pain in a particular part of the body: 'The child was complaining of pains in the lower abdomen.' 3. Severe emotional or mental distress: 'He suffered a pain of rejection.' 4. Someone, or something, that is extre...
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    pain
    
    1. a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder
    2. emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid
    3. a somatic sensation of acute discomfort
    4. a bothersome annoying person
    5. something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness
    
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    pain
    pain, unpleasant or hurtful sensation resulting from stimulation of nerve endings. The stimulus is carried by nerve fibers to the spinal cord and then to the brain, where the nerve impulse is interpreted as pain. The excessive stimulation of nerve endings during pain is attributed to tissue damage, ...
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    Pain
    See Pleasure.
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