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  • adjective Not painful.

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non- +‎ painful

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Examples

  • You may notice nonpainful tightening in your uterus, and the baby may drop lower, so you breathe easier but have to urinate more often.

    Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth THE BOSTON WOMEN’S HEALTH BOOK COLLECTIVE 2008

  • Toward the end of the second trimester, you may also begin to experience Braxton-Hicks contractions, small, nonpainful contractions in which your uterus becomes hard for a moment and then releases.

    Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth THE BOSTON WOMEN’S HEALTH BOOK COLLECTIVE 2008

  • You may notice nonpainful tightening in your uterus, and the baby may drop lower, so you breathe easier but have to urinate more often.

    Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth THE BOSTON WOMEN’S HEALTH BOOK COLLECTIVE 2008

  • Toward the end of the second trimester, you may also begin to experience Braxton-Hicks contractions, small, nonpainful contractions in which your uterus becomes hard for a moment and then releases.

    Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth THE BOSTON WOMEN’S HEALTH BOOK COLLECTIVE 2008

  • Contractions that feel like a tight nonpainful band around your abdomen are normal during pregnancy.

    Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth THE BOSTON WOMEN’S HEALTH BOOK COLLECTIVE 2008

  • Contractions that feel like a tight nonpainful band around your abdomen are normal during pregnancy.

    Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth THE BOSTON WOMEN’S HEALTH BOOK COLLECTIVE 2008

  • We also asked the patients to report unpleasant nonpainful sensations (dysesthesia) and describe the characteristics of these sensations.

    PLoS Medicine: New Articles 2009

  • Experts believe that by stimulating the nonpainful sensory pathway, the electrical impulses trick the brain into turning off or turning right down the painful signals, resulting in pain relief.

    Health News from Medical News Today 2009

  • We employed cylindrical brass bars (diameter 1 cm) kept at 20°C to produce a nonpainful cold stimulus and

    PLoS Medicine: New Articles 2009

  • I don’t know how long you live, but … Kirk couldn’t think of any nonpainful way to phrase the question.

    STRANGE NEW WORLDS 10 Dean Wesley Smith 2007

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