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afterpain

noun

Etymology

From after- + pain.

  1. derived from *kʷoynéh₂✻ — “payment”
  2. derived from *kʷoinā́✻
  3. derived from ποινή
  4. derived from poena
  5. derived from peine
  6. inherited from peyne
  7. prefixed as afterpain — “after + pain”

Definitions

  1. Pain that occurs or remains after an event, such as surgery (especially dental surgery),…

    Pain that occurs or remains after an event, such as surgery (especially dental surgery), eating spicy food, or simply an initial, sharper pain.

    • In spite of all our precautions to avoid afterpain, in spite of the fact that our instruments are properly sterilized and our technique is perfect in every way, nevertheless, pain often follows ex-tractions.
    • […] he vomited a great deal of red material. […] The sharp pain had not been continuous, but a dull afterpain persisted from one attack of sharp pain to the next attack of sharp pain.

  2. Pain of uterine contractions experienced after childbirth (especially after passage of…

    Pain of uterine contractions experienced after childbirth (especially after passage of the placenta).

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA