(a.) Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing.
(a.) Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march.
(a.) Painstaking; careful; industrious.
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.
Painless
Definition:
(a.) Free from pain; without pain.
Example Sentences:
(1) The observed clinical findings include scarring of the face and hands (83.7%), hyperpigmentation (65%), hypertrichosis (44.8%), pinched facies (40.1%), painless arthritis (70.2%), small hands (66.6%), sensory shading (60.6%), myotonia (37.9%), cogwheeling (41.9%), enlarged thyroid (34.9%), and enlarged liver (4.8%).
(2) We present a patient with unilateral progressive painless loss of vision leading to optic atrophy and blindness.
(3) A 22-year-old-man was admitted with the chief complaint of painless swelling of the right scrotal content.
(4) Euthanasia – killing someone painlessly, usually to relieve suffering – is also illegal.
(5) Painless recovery of radiopaque substances after positive contrast myelography is often difficult, especially if the initial spinal tap is not made precisely in the midline.
(6) Clinical presentation usually includes loss of vision and gradual, painless proptosis.
(7) The advantages of the method used are the followings: simple, atraumatic, painless.
(8) In this report, a 19-year-old woman having Addison's disease, ovarian failure, painless thyroiditis, and an HLA type characteristic of PGAS II is described.
(9) The irritable colon syndrome comprises two predominant symptom patterns -- "spastic colon" with pain and constipation, and painless "nervous diarrhea".
(10) A 99MTc pertechnetate image demonstrated epididymo-orchitis and a hydrocele in a 15-year-old youth with painless scrotal swelling.
(11) In the group of persons with painless ischemia, the death rate approaches that among patients with a history of myocardial infarction (32 and 39%, respectively).
(12) In addition to the above 145 patients, thirty-five cases of persistent microscopic hematuria classified as symptomatic, with a past history of "acute nephritis", lumbar pain and other complaints; and 11 patients with macroscopic hematuria, painless or associated with "acute nephritis" had similar glomerular lesions.
(13) Respiratory monitoring provides painless, nonpenetrating measurements which are immediately available, and which reduce the incidence of undetected life-threatening respiratory accidents.
(14) An 81-year-old man with a painless enlargement of the right testis which developed 11 years ago was treated with right orchiectomy without any combined therapy in 1981.
(15) Extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy with piezoelectric shock waves provides painless and efficient gallstone fragmentation.
(16) Invariably, either because of imbedding of the device, perforation into the lower uterine segment, or simply from decay, the string comes off with traction during attempted removal, A simple, relatively painless procedure with the correct instrument is all that is required to remove the IUD.
(17) 24-h ECG monitoring registered painless ST shifts in 75 of them.
(18) In patients who smoked cigarettes, ST-segment depression was more common while smoking, but the incidence of painless ST-segment depression was not altered.
(19) Maxillary myxoma is identified by the appearance of a non-inflammatory and often painless swelling which, in radiological terms, appears to have a zone of multilocular and sometimes unilocular osteolysis.
(20) The gland is painless and histologically demonstrates lymphocytic infiltration.