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单词 hunger pain
释义

hunger pain

English

Alternative forms

  • hunger-pain, hungerpain

Noun

hunger pain (countable and uncountable, plural hunger pains)

  1. (medicine) A burning pain in the gastrointestinal area that occurs with mild hunger and is alleviated by food or antacids.
    • 1910, New York State Journal of Medicine - Volumes 10-11, page 538:
      Given a history of repeated, definite attacks of hunger pain and food ease, recurring each day at the same time after meals, and relieved by food or alkalies; with intervals of normal health; the attacks gradually' increasing in severity and frequence, a positive diagnosis of duodenal ulcer should be made.
    • 1920, American Medicine - Volume 26, page 424:
      He concluded that hunger pains in ulcer cases are not due to hunger contractions per se, but to hyperexcitability of the sensory nerves in the stomach wall.
    • 2007, David Scott Smith, Field Guide to Bedside Diagnosis, page 114:
      A typical presentation will be chronic dyspepsia with an epigastric gnawing or hunger pain, both of which are temporarily relieved by food or antacids.
  2. Pain that results from severe hunger.
    • 2007, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), A Future with No One Living in Poverty and Hunger, page 1:
      To think, my father and I went jet-skiing off the coast of a nation characterized by constant hunger pains, only to return to our ship in time for the elaborate banquet held that evening.
    • 2009, Robert F. Smallwood, Jackson Squared, page 29:
      I knew I needed to get my artwork out in front of the public since, for the first time in my life, I was really hungry. Hunger pain kind of hungry.
    • 2012, Tim Pat Coogan, The Famine Plot: England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy:
      Donovan's observations show that the early onset of acute hunger pain subsides after approximately twenty-four hours. He quotes one of his cases as telling him that feelings of acute hunger were followed by symptoms that included “a feeling of weakness and sinking and an insatiable thirst for cold water."
    • 2013, J. Cuartas, Pay With Paper: A Beginner Guide To Couponing!:
      On average we ate just one meal a day and when we would eat it was just enough to satisfy the hunger pain.
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