afterpain

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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