algesi-, alge-, alges-, algesio-, algi-, algio-, -algesia, -algesic, -algetic, -algic, -algia, -algy

Pain in the abdomen; a belly ache.

1. A throbbing and burning pain in the skin often caused by exertion or heat, affecting the hands and feet, accompanied by a dusky mottled redness of the parts with increased skin temperature.
2. A rare disorder of middle age, characterized by attacks of severe burning pain, reddening, hyperalgesia and sweating, involving one or more extremities, usually both feet; the attacks can be triggered by warmth, and are usually relieved by cold and limb elevation.
3. A condition affecting the extremities, especially the feet, marked by burning and throbbing sensations that come and go.

Painful inflammation of the bones of the hands and feet.

A glandular pain; a painful swelling in a gland.

A condition in which painful areas of subcutaneous fat develop; painful areas of subcutaneous fat.

1. Toothache experienced at lowered atmospheric pressures, as in aircraft flight or in a decompression chamber, caused by the expansion of air in the maxillary sinuses.
2. Dental pain caused by either increased or reduced atmospheric pressure; also aero-odontalgia.

Another term for aerodontalgia.

Relating to pain; painful.

Characterized by or relating to pleasure and pain, or the agreeable and the disagreeable.

The application of pressure to detect tenderness.

The sense of pain; sensitiveness to pain.

“Though familiar to us all, pain is mercifully difficult to remember once it has passed (if it were not, it has been observed, every family would have but one child). Doctors refer to the short-lived suffering of childbirth or surgery or even a toothache as ‘acute pain’; it is terrible at the time, but ultimately it passes.

For untold millions, however, pain does not pass. It sings on through the night, month after month, overwhelming sleep, stifling pleasure, shrinking experience, until there is nothing but pain. This is chronic pain, and its sufferers are legion: there are more than 36 million arthritics in the U.S.; there are 70 million with agonizing back pain; about 20 million who suffer from blinding migraines; millions more who are racked by diseases like sciatica and gout.

Most feared of all, the pain associated with cancer afflicts some 800,000 Americans and 18 million people world wide.”

“Pain, said Albert Schweitzer, ‘is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death himself.’ ”

Painful.

1. Painful; related to or causing pain.
2. Relating to hypersensitivity to pain; also, algetic.

An instrument for recording the time required for the perception of a painful stimulus.

An instrument used in measuring the sensitiveness to pain as produced by pricking with a sharp point or an apparatus for determining the sensitiveness of the skin.