What's the difference between bellyache and stomachache?

Bellyache


Definition:

  • (n.) Pain in the bowels; colic.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "I don't know about you, but I'm getting tired of the big oil companies always bellyaching that we can't afford clean energy," says a grizzled old man in a faded checked work shirt.
  • (2) Such querulous, opinionated persons are obstinate "bellyachers" who "stick to their guns" and imaginary legal positions to the extent of being a general nuisance.
  • (3) But there are acts that are doing very well, because they are paying attention to where the money goes, and not bellyaching, sans facts, about the music business.
  • (4) We will hear much bellyaching about a situation in which the government, rather than risking sensitive evidence in open court, is forced to pay out vast compensation to people who have had the temerity to allege the UK's compliance in their torture.
  • (5) The patient consulted a physician in our Hospital for bellyache on the left abdomen.
  • (6) "That's why we moan and bitch and bellyache," Suraiya explained in The Times of India newspaper.
  • (7) I’ve heard a number of people bellyache in Hollywood about it.” Whether there is resentment (only 15% of Republican voters thought 12 Years A Slave should have won last year) or the academy is swayed by fads (arguably this year, experimental film-making is the common thread), there is no doubt trends can be found when it comes to diversity and awards season.

Stomachache


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Parent ratings indicated that only the side effects of decreased appetite, insomnia, stomachaches, and headaches increased significantly in frequency and severity during the two active medication doses as compared with the placebo condition.
  • (2) More patients, and in most cases nonpatients with IBS, reported poorer general health and headaches, stomachaches, and bowel complaints during childhood.
  • (3) Though in the meantime 12 years had passed she suffered occasionally from redness of the pharynx and stomachache after ingestion of tea prepared from yarrow and camomile.
  • (4) Constipation, stomachache, haemorrhoids and spasm of the anal sphincter were typical complaints.
  • (5) Data are presented on headaches and stomachaches in a sample of 189 3-year-old children obtained as part of community based study.
  • (6) When the children were 3 years old, interviews with their mothers indicated that 3% had recurrent headaches and 9% had recurrent stomachaches.
  • (7) Later, breathing through another stomachache, I scanned my notes, rereading scrawled concerns based on various conversations about the potential that everyone we met had some form of extreme PTSD, either from being sick, witnessing a nationwide health crisis, or – as had cropped up in one or two of the conversations – from being sexually assaulted.
  • (8) On June 12, 1987, the patient again returned to our hospital, complaining of a stomachache.
  • (9) The "physical" symptoms (stomachache, backache, nausea, fainting) were more often reported during menstruation, whereas the so-called "emotional" symptoms (lethargy, irritability, depression, tension, headache) had a greater prevalence premenstrually.
  • (10) Prospectively collected data demonstrate that children with recurrent stomachaches did not have bowel difficulties when they were infants.
  • (11) Children with recurrent headaches or stomachaches were more likely to have behavior problems, as measured by the Behavior Screening Questionnaire, than were children without these symptoms.
  • (12) Other psychosocial stresses and demographic factors were not associated with stomachaches.
  • (13) The epidemiology of recurrent stomachache and headache was studied in a community sample of 308 preschool children, most of whom were white.
  • (14) Other symptoms were abdominal bloating, vomiting urge, vomiting, nausea, stomachache, intestinal cramps, and diarrhea.
  • (15) Four of five individuals with stomachache had consumed a strongly hypertonic beverage.
  • (16) The results supported the previous findings of a link between family factors and recurrent stomachache, and a less strong association with headaches.
  • (17) Most frequently observed side effects in both groups were flushings, stomachache and diarrhea.
  • (18) A similar measurement model fits mother's and adolescent's tendency to seek medical care for the symptoms of a sore throat, stomachache, and vomiting.
  • (19) It differed from other gastrointestinal illnesses in that headaches were more likely and stomachaches were less likely to be reported.
  • (20) Stomachaches and headaches in a community sample of preschool children.

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