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Afterpain

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Noun
  1. 1
    Pain that occurs or remains after an event, such as surgery (especially dental surgery), eating spicy food, or simply an initial, sharper pain.

    "[Causes of] afterpain are rapid injection of the solution or using it too hot, and where the solution is taken from a stock bottle and not boiled; afterpain may also result from sepsis. The enigma of afterpain will undoubedly always by with us[…]"

  2. 2
    Pain of uterine contractions experienced after childbirth (especially after passage of the placenta). in-plural, often

Etymology

From after- + pain.

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