backache
/ˈbæˌkeɪk/
nouna pain in someone's back
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1. They're having body aches or headaches or backaches.
2. or "I have a backache."
3. This pepper also fights arthritis and backaches.
4. and I don't just mean backache.
5. Other symptoms include headaches, backache, abdominal bloating, and dizziness.
colic
/kˈɑːlɪk/
nouna severe pain localized in abdominal area, especially suffered by babies
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1. And the definition of colic is crying at least three hours a day, at least three days of the week, for at least three weeks.
2. Baby Randy is colic crying Tim's ear off.
3. What's colic?
4. New born, anti colic bottles.
5. You can also experience colic and gas.
cramp
/ˈkɹæmp/
nouna sudden painful contraction in a muscle due to fatigue
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1. - They got cramps!
2. Unseen forces can really cramp your style.
3. My stomach was cramping.
4. I just cramped my legs.
5. Water prevents cramps.
crick
/ˈkɹɪk/
nouna painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British)
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1. I have a crick in my neck!
2. I have a crick in my neck.
3. It was put forward by Crick through the discovery of DNA.
4. We're in a crick.
5. You have the desk without a crick in your neck.
earache
/ˈɪɹeɪk/
nouna pain inside the ear
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1. Earaches, bad sore throats, and pain/redness/swelling of joints all warrant a call.
2. There are a few different things that can cause earaches.
3. Let's start with asthma, eczema, massive earaches.
4. Use heat to soothe the earache.
5. Prevent earache recurrences by staying germ-free, updating vaccines, and preventing cigarette smoke exposure.
electric shock
/ɪlˈɛktɹɪk ʃˈɑːk/
nouna trauma caused by a physical reaction to electrical currents flowing through one's body
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1. It can produce electric shocks up to 860 volts which according to the National Electric Code, would put it in High Voltage range.
2. It was an electric shock.
3. It was an electric shock.
4. They gave him electric shock as a punishment.
5. Sugar encourages a desired behavior, electric shocks stop the animal from the undesired behavior.
eyestrain
/ˈaɪˌstɹeɪn/
nouna tiredness of the eyes caused by prolonged close work by a person with an uncorrected vision problem
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1. We know that blue light damages our eyes and leads to digital eyestrain, which can lead to blurred vision, headaches, and dry watery eyes.
2. Starting off with eyestrain.
3. Avoid eyestrain with this daily exercise.
4. Computer eyestrain can hurt productivity, but it's easy to prevent if you take a few precautions.
5. Buy an LCD monitor, since older CRT monitors produce flicker, a major source of eyestrain.
growing pains
/ɡɹˈoʊɪŋ pˈeɪnz/
nounpain in muscles or joints sometimes experienced by children and often attributed to rapid growth
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1. Homeless teen Luke showed up on Growing Pains, Cousin Oliver appeared on The Brady Bunch, and The Simpsons mocked the entire concept with a random character named Roy.
headache
/ˈhɛˌdeɪk/
nouna pain in the head, usually persistent
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1. - They got headaches.
2. I had headaches.
3. The most common adverse effect is headache.
4. This sudden change in blood flow will cause headaches.
5. Headaches are a complicated phenomenon.
lumbago
/ɫəmˈbeɪˌɡoʊ/
nounbackache affecting the lumbar region or lower back; can be caused by muscle strain or arthritis or vascular insufficiency or a ruptured intervertebral disc
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pins and needles
/pˈɪnz ænd nˈiːdəlz/
phrasea sharp, tingling pain in a limb, as if one is being jabbed with pins, that is a natural response of that limb recovering from numbness
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1. And it's just like, yeah, I too am a man in my 30s, who is a little too obsessed with these fairies, and. - Weird, Tingle seems to have pins and needles in his feet, from playing video games for seven hours in a row.
2. People sometimes call that feeling pins and needles.
3. And that tingling, pins and needles feeling you get when you shift your position is kind of like your arm or leg is waking up!
4. That’s where the pins and needles feeling comes from.
5. So to keep yourself from getting pins and needles, you can just make sure you don’t sit or lean in one position for too long.
stomach ache
/stˈʌmək ˈeɪk/
nouna pain in or near someone's stomach
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1. I don't- No, the facts gave me that stomach ache.
2. Just beware stomach aches from eating too much candy.
3. Many times, stomach aches, back pains, indigestion, weight loss, and tiredness go unnoticed.
4. You might have stomach aches or random cramps.
5. We both had a stomach ache.
toothache
/tˈuːθeɪk/
nouna pain in a tooth
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1. But a toothache can be kind of an indicator for something way more serious.
2. A toothache, for example, can irritate the mandibular nerve causing pain near the central skull.
3. He even has a toothache.
4. As a result, some people pass this sign off as a random toothache.
5. Number three - you feel a sudden toothache.
writer's cramp
/ɹˈaɪɾɚz kɹˈæmp/
nounmuscular spasms of thumb and forefinger while writing with a pen or pencil
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ache
/ˈeɪk/
nouna continuous, but dull (not acute) feeling of pain in a part of the body
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1. My head aches.
2. My hands ached.
3. My hand is aching!
4. And my chest ached.
5. My foot aches.
agony
/ˈæɡəni/
nounsevere physical or mental pain
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1. It is agony.
2. Agony is probably the best word.
3. In agony, the old man lost his grip on Rogers.
4. Agony means pain.
5. So agony is more powerful than just normal pain.
anguish
/ˈæŋɡwɪʃ/
nounextreme distress of body or mind
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1. And that psychological anguish takes a toll physically.
2. Reporter: AND VIOLENT DEATHS LIKE THOSE OF BREONNA TAYLOR AND AMOUD AUBREY WERE ANGUISHING COMMUNITIES.
3. The anxiety, the anguish is literally eating away at your soul.
4. "The anguish was relentless."
5. Can you imagine the mental anguish.
irritation
/ˌɪɹɪˈteɪʃən/
nouna feeling of pain, discomfort, or inflammation one senses in multiple areas of skin or different parts of the body
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1. Irritation is good for comedy.
2. Side effects include scalp and skin irritation.
3. Irritation is well recognized.
4. Is stomach irritation one of its side effects?
5. Another possible cause for nosebleeds is irritation of the nasal lining.
neuralgia
/nʊɹɹˈældʒə/
nounacute spasmodic pain along the course of one or more nerves
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1. So I like to call this liberalism's neuralgia and the aspirin of austerity.
2. And so I actually started my research career at Johns Hopkins where I trained, and my first research grant was on post-herpetic neuralgia.
3. I was diagnosed with pudendal neuralgia and persistent genital arousal disorder.
4. Trigeminal Neuralgia is a condition that affects the trigeminal nerve.
5. Occipital neuralgia is a very distinctive headache which causes piercing, throbbing and chronic pain in the back of a person's head, behind the ears, or their upper neck.
pang
/ˈpæŋ/
nouna sharp spasm of pain
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1. A pang is a sharp pain.
2. A pang is a sharp pain.
3. The hunger pangs were sharp.
4. - Pang, pang where are you?
5. - Pang, pang where are you?
smart
/ˈsmɑɹt/
nouna kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a sore
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1. Women are smart.
2. - Raccoons are smart.
3. Diligence, discipline and persistence will overpower smarts.
4. Your fat is smart.
5. Kids are smart.
spasm
/ˈspæzəm/
nouna muscle contraction that is painful and happens suddenly without one's control
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1. My father-in-law actually sometimes has back spasms.
2. Will some spasm foreclose Earth's future?
3. The spasms are sudden, powerful, long-lasting, and very painful contractions of muscles.
4. The spasm doesn't cause the hiccup.
5. Have muscles spasms?
stab
/ˈstæb/
nouna sudden sharp feeling
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1. I stab your taint!
2. - I stabbed a man in the heart.
3. Stabbed a guy.
4. - Stab their eye out!
5. She stabbed this guy in the leg.
suffering
/ˈsəfɝɪŋ/, /ˈsəfɹɪŋ/
nounthe state of undergoing physical or mental pain
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1. Suffering comes in many forms.
2. And suffering has five different tones, five different frequencies.
3. Desire brings suffering.
4. They cause suffering.
5. Suffering is a reality.
throb
/ˈθɹɑb/
nouna strong, pulsing sensation or feeling, often accompanied by pain or discomfort
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1. Throbbing massive human flesh.
2. Right now, my arm is throbbing.
3. Oh, my arm is throbbing right now.
4. My foot is throbbing.
5. My arm is throbbing right now.
torment
/ˈtɔɹˌmɛnt/, /tɔɹˈmɛnt/
nounextreme physical or mental suffering, anguish, or distress
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1. My life is the torment.
2. Feel the torment right now.
3. Feel the torment right now.
4. My dreams are like torment.
5. He later torments the boy with a puppet of Ebenezer Scrooge in one of the scariest scenes in The Polar Express.
torture
/ˈtɔɹtʃɝ/
nounintense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
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1. The hangman then applied torture at the direction of a council of examiners.
2. No one said torture.
3. His jailers tortured prisoners to death.
4. Any police in any country of the world is torturing innocent people.
5. Torturing the whammy bar.
twinge
/ˈtwɪndʒ/
nouna sharp stab of pain
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1. That, and dinosaurs in their graves maybe felt a twinge of catharsis.
2. Quantified Self-- henceforth, QS-- has a kind of post-human twinge to it.
3. Suddenly, there’s an odd gnawing twinge in the stomach.
4. This present ache or twinge might not announce the end - but something will happen.
5. Was there a twinge of jealousy?
griping
/ˈɡɹaɪpɪŋ/
nounacute abdominal pain (especially in infants)
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1. But at this point, I hope we are bored to death of non-nuanced griping about personal experiences of the world that involve devices.
2. But for all of the red-faced frustration that it causes, the griping does imply something interesting.
decompression sickness
/dˌiːkəmpɹˈɛʃən sˈɪknəs/
nounpain resulting from rapid change in pressure
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repetitive strain injury
/ɹɪpˈɛɾɪtˌɪv stɹˈeɪn ˈɪndʒɚɹi/
nounthe pain felt in muscles, tendons, etc. caused by repeated pressure or movements
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1. Even things like repetitive strain injury, you know, if you've gotten, uh, or repetitive strain, I know I've gotten one or two in my life.
2. So what you're just doomed to aggravate your repetitive strain injury?
3. Certain professions get repetitive strain injury.
4. One of the main symptoms that's been found have social contagion is repetitive strain injury.
5. The Express reported that her longtime clockmaker, Steve Davidson, even developed Repetitive Strain Injury in his wrist after nearly two decades spent cleaning, repairing, and winding the queen's clocks.
chest pain
/tʃˈɛst pˈeɪn/
nounpain in the chest
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1. She started to have Chest Pain.
2. You have to have Chest Pain, short of BREATH, FEVER, Body Aches, MALAISE.
3. Chest Pain & Heartburn Let’s talk about another type of hernia for a minute.
4. Heartburn, Chest Pain, and Indigestion: A sensation of burning or pain behind the breastbone is common, and often begins after a large meal.
5. Chest Pain Do you know that 1 in 12 men and 1 in 30 women suffer from this heart condition.
orofacial pain
/ˈoːɹəfˌeɪʃəl pˈeɪn/
noundiscomfort or pain that arises from various structures in the mouth and face, including the jaw joints, muscles, teeth, nerves, and other related tissues
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1. Clinical analysis in controlled tests, including those carried out by the Journal of Orofacial Pain and Cochrane, have even exposed the effectiveness of this point in treating migraines and headaches.