What's the difference between pain and twinge?

Pain


Definition:

  • (n.) Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.
  • (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.) Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth.
  • (n.) Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; grief; solicitude; anguish.
  • (n.) See Pains, labor, effort.
  • (n.) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
  • (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.
  • (n.) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve; as a child's faults pain his parents.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Experience of pain is modified by intern and extern influences, and it can appear very multiformly in the chronicity.
  • (2) All subjects completed the Coping Strategies Questionnaire, which measures the use and perceived effectiveness of a variety of cognitive and behavioral coping strategies in controlling and decreasing pain.
  • (3) Although solely nociresponsive neurons are clearly likely to fill a role in the processing and signalling of pain in the conscious central nervous system, the way in which such useful specificity could be conveyed by multireceptive neurons is difficult to appreciate.
  • (4) Sixteen patients were operated on for lumbar pain and pain radiating into the sciatic nerve distribution.
  • (5) Needle acupuncture did, however, increase the pain threshold compared with the initial value (alpha = 0.1%).
  • (6) Pain is not reported in the removal area, the clinical examinations show identical findings on both patellar tendons, X-ray and ultrasound evaluations do not demonstrate any change in patellar position.
  • (7) For assessment of clinical status, investigators must rely on the use of standardized instruments for patient self-reporting of fatigue, mood disturbance, functional status, sleep disorder, global well-being, and pain.
  • (8) However, as the plan unravels, Professor Marcus's team turn on one another, with painfully (if painfully funny) results.
  • (9) During the chronic phase, pain was assessed using visual analogue scales at 8 AM and 4 PM daily.
  • (10) Symptoms, particularly colicky abdominal pain, improved during the period of chelation therapy.
  • (11) Cook, who has postbox-red hair and a painful-looking piercing in his lower lip, was now on stage in discussion with four fellow YouTubers, all in their early 20s.
  • (12) The main clinical symptom was pain, usually sciatica, while neurological symptoms were less common than they are in adults.
  • (13) The study revealed that hypophysectomy and ventricular injection of AVP dose dependently raised pain threshold and these effects were inhibited by naloxone.
  • (14) Anxious mood and other symptoms of anxiety were commonly seen in patients with chronic low back pain.
  • (15) During these delays, medical staff attempt to manage these often complex and painful conditions with ad hoc and temporizing measures,” write the doctors.
  • (16) In this study, a potassium nitrate-polycarboxylate cement was used as a liner and was found clinically to tend to preserve pulpal vitality and significantly eliminate or decrease postoperative pain.
  • (17) The successful treatment of the painful neuroma remains an elusive surgical goal.
  • (18) Univariate and multivariate analyses indicated previous LBP or back pain in another location of the spine were strongly associated with LBP during the study year.
  • (19) Our previous study demonstrated that acupuncture increased pain threshold of the body, especially in the inflammatory area.
  • (20) The triad of epigastric pain unrelieved by antacids, bilious vomiting, and weight loss, particularly after a gastric operation should make one suspect this syndrome.

Twinge


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.
  • (v. i.) To affect with a sharp, sudden pain; to torment with pinching or sharp pains.
  • (v. i.) To have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen, darting, or shooting pain; as, the side twinges.
  • (n.) A pinch; a tweak; a twitch.
  • (n.) A sudden sharp pain; a darting local pain of momentary continuance; as, a twinge in the arm or side.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The archive goes back to how Vietnam began to embarrass the US ("a twinge in the public relations nerve" - Mary McCarthy), the womens' liberation movement (illustrated by a tense, and often hilarious, debate between Norman Mailer and Susan Sontag in which she pulls him up on his use of the word "ladies") and George W Bush's invasion of Iraq (the NYRB was the only major publication to oppose the war from the off).
  • (2) He’s not able to play three games in a week.” Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe signs contract extension Read more Agüero damaged the left hamstring representing Argentina against Ecuador , nine days after feeling a twinge following the Champions League win in Mönchengladbach .
  • (3) Certainly Paris Saint-Germain – aside from being encouraged by the twinge to the right thigh suffered by John Terry which forced him prematurely from the fray and will require a scan on Sunday – will have learned little other than that the Premier League champions can still be expansive when permitted to revel.
  • (4) The funny things I remember all have a twinge of sorrow to them.
  • (5) But when future generations download the recordings, and listen to skylarks and nightingales, cuckoos and turtle doves, will they feel a twinge of sadness that these species are no longer with us?
  • (6) The Belgian, sufferer of a calf twinge against Southampton last week, was introduced for the final quarter – another boost for Guardiola before Barcelona visit the Etihad.
  • (7) Reading Scotland's Future, I couldn't at first account for a faint twinge of melancholy, a recognition.
  • (8) We’re having lunch in Winzavod, a fashionable ex-factory art space in Moscow where they have their office, and I almost feel a twinge of pity for those prison officials.
  • (9) You had to feel a twinge of pity for Lord Stevenson, who was the chairman of HBOS when it went down the khazi in 2008.
  • (10) To stay at a club where the fans love you is really important to me.” He is adamant he will not feel even a twinge of jealousy for Klopp.
  • (11) As I sit in the sun in the little peace garden finally eating my lentil dhal and nursing what is no more than a twinge in the small of the back, I can see what she means.
  • (12) Just as Ree Dolly is at her most beguiling when her mask momentarily slips, and her face briefly twinges with trauma and adolescent uncertainty, the usually formidable Lawrence's childish vulnerability is her most affecting quality.
  • (13) Touré was substituted before the end because of a slight twinge in his groin but Pellegrini did not seem too concerned it might prevent his midfielder from playing against Chelsea on Sunday.
  • (14) Some people may feel a twinge of sadness at some of the items that went the other way – VHS video players, MiniDisc players, local newspapers, nests of tables, bread bins, and jigsaw puzzles have all been removed from the basket in recent years.
  • (15) The tragedy is, just as not a single doctor in India who helped pregnant women get rid of their girl children will ever be held accountable for what has become an enormous social problem, it is doubtful if any UK doctors will ever feel a twinge of guilt over sex-selective abortion either, regardless of the consequences.
  • (16) Walker says he had "little twinges" when he saw the Mercury, but says that strikingly his health was good in the days afterwards: if he had made a big mistake, the stress would have manifested itself in stronger symptoms.
  • (17) Now the veil has been ripped away and we know there are a sizeable number of Tory MPs who are willing to do serious damage to David Cameron and feel no twinge of disloyalty."
  • (18) Part of me was really annoyed because he hadn't called me back for, like, a month and then I saw him and had this tiny burned twinge of hurt, but it disappeared within a minute because that sort of family bond is so much deeper than any other bond.
  • (19) Occasionally, however, disturbing sensations, such as "metallic taste", "twinging or stabbing" and "minute electric shock" are reported.
  • (20) The slightest twinge and I wonder if that's it, if I'm dying right there and then.