| painful | 1. Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing 2. Requiring labour or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march. 3. Painstaking; careful; industrious. "A very painful person, and a great clerk." (Jer. Taylor) "Nor must the painful husbandman be tired." (Dryden) Synonym: Disquieting, troublesome, afflictive, distressing, grievous, laborious, toilsome, difficult, arduous. Pain"fully, Pain"fulness. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| painful anaesthesia | Severe spontaneous pain occurring in an anaesthetic area. Synonym: painful anaesthesia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| painful-bruising syndrome | <syndrome> An intense inflammatory reaction to slight extravasation of blood, due to an allergic sensitivity to red blood cells; more commonly seen in adult women. (05 Mar 2000) |
| painful haematuria | Haematuria associated with dysuria, usually indicating the coexistence of infection, trauma, calculi, or foreign bodies within the lower urinary tract. (05 Mar 2000) |
| painful paraplegia | Paralysis of the lower extremities in which the affected parts, in spite of loss of motion and sensation, are the seat of excruciating pain; occurs in certain cases of cancer of the spinal cord. Synonym: painful paraplegia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| painful point | See: Valleix's points. (05 Mar 2000) |
| painful toe | A condition, usually associated with flatfoot, in which walking causes severe pain in the metatarsophalangeal joint of the great toe. Synonym: painful toe. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ARC | A stage before AIDS, with symptoms such as swollen lymph glands, long-lasting night sweats, fevers and unusual weight loss. Also commonly called symptomatic HIV infection. This term is no longer officially recognised by the CDC. (09 Oct 1997) |
| arc-flash conjunctivitis | Acute keratoconjunctivitis resulting from exposure to intense ultraviolet irradiation. Synonym: actinic conjunctivitis, arc-flash conjunctivitis, flash keratoconjunctivitis, ophthalmia nivalis, snow conjunctivitis, welder's conjunctivitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| arc of buehler | <radiology> Persistent embryologic anastomosis between coeliac artery and superior mesenteric artery (12 Dec 1998) |
| arc of riolan | <radiology> Inconstant anastomotic artery between middle and left colic aa. (12 Dec 1998) |
| arc perimeter | A perimeter consisting of a saemicircular frame at the centre of which the patient looks while a white object is moving along the arc, the exact point where it becomes visible or invisible being noted and recorded on a chart. (05 Mar 2000) |
| auricular arc | A line carried over the cranium from the centre of one external auditory meatus to that of the other. Synonym: interauricular arc. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bois d'arc | <botany> The Osage orange (Maclura aurantiaca). "The bois d'arc seems to be the characteristic growth of the black prairies." (U. S. Census (1880)) Origin: F, bow wood. So called because used for bows by the Western Indians. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bregmatolambdoid arc | The line running along the sagittal suture from the bregma to the apex of the lambdoid suture. (05 Mar 2000) |