pain - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • relieve: It can really help to relieve lower back pain.
  • ease: Putting in insoles, & plasters, eases pain on ankles.
  • inflict: Neither of these actions were sufficiently forceful to inflict pain.
  • alleviate: The initial goal of treatment is to alleviate pain, followed by measures to reduce future fracture risk.

Adjective modifier

  • abdominal: Female pelvic organs Symptoms of painful periods Cramping lower abdominal pains are the most common symptom.
  • chronic: No hands on physical therapy is given to people with chronic muscular skeletal pain, this is policy.
  • severe: If you get severe pain and vomiting get urgent advice from your GP.
  • acute: The heart muscle, suddenly deprived of oxygen, is the site of the typical acute central chest pain.
  • pelvic: Information: I have been experiencing pelvic pain on and off for a year or so.
  • postoperative: Single dose oral ibuprofen and diclofenac for postoperative pain.

Modifies a noun

  • relief: Pain relief CD to download or buy right now!
  • killer: His lameness improved over the next week, despite receiving no pain killers.

Noun used with modifier

  • chest: Initial analysis will focus on patients with chest pain.
  • stomach: And the most disturbing: " Stomach pain and stomach ulcer with or without bleeding.
  • knee: If you experience any knee pain, stop the exercise.
  • neck: In some cases, neck pain can be a symptom of head injury or disk trouble in the neck.

Preposition: in

  • ass: Building MSI installers turns out to be almost completely a pain in the ass.
  • ass: MULDER: I'm a pain in the ass to work with.
  • abdomen: If a gallstone were responsible there would probably have been a preceding history of pain in the abdomen.

Preposition: of

  • childbirth: Do you think part of a mother's happiness may be because she has come through the pain of childbirth?

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