The different types of pain and injuries


I'm lacking a range of vocabulary that allows me to express different kinds of
pain. And since I'm on this theme I might as well included injuries in this
question. It seems that everything can be contained in `痛み` and `きず` but I
would like to be more specific.

I shall list down the different types of injury and its corresponding pain
(Not the instantaneous pain felt at the moment of injury, but the pain that
persists afterwards) that I think deserve a different description because they
just feel too different from each other:

  1. Bruise; aching, tender(pain upon pressure)

  2. Cut/Gash; sharp pain, prickly sensation

  3. Abrasion; tingling/prickly sensation

  4. Muscle strain; dull and sore aching (Like after rigorous exercise the muscle feels sore)

  5. (For various injuries); Throbbing pain

What are their Japanese counterparts?




> Bruise; aching, tender(pain upon pressure) → あざ、打撲傷【だぼくしょう】、血豆【ちまめ】(?)  
>  
>  Cut/Gash; sharp pain, prickly sensation → 切【き】り傷【きず】(cut, gash),
> {ひりひり・ぴりぴり}{する・痛む} (to sting, prickle, burn -- either a wound, or can be
> used to describe the feeling of eating hot/spicy foods)  
>  
>  Abrasion; tingling/prickly sensation → 擦【す】り傷【きず】  
>  
>  Muscle strain; dull and sore aching (Like after rigorous exercise the
> muscle feels sore) → 筋肉痛【きんにくつう】  
>  
>  (For various injuries); Throbbing pain → ずきずき{する・痛む}




痛み refers to the sensation of pain, while きず the trace or mark left behind by
the pain inflicted.

The visible cut/gash is きず. Abrasion is 擦り傷{すりきず}. But they don't refer to the
pain.

For most sores or muscle aches, there are various words ending with 痛{つう},
e.g. the generic muscle sore is 筋肉痛{きんにくつう}.

When used metaphorically, 痛み still refers to the pain felt, and 傷{きず} the
metaphorical 'cut'.

> 彼との{ }死別{しべつ}でできた心の傷がまだ{ }治{なお}っていない
>
> The wound in the heart from the time when seperated from him by his death
> has not yet healed.

For the throbbing sensation, there are many words for it: 苦痛{くつう}, 激痛{げきつう},
疼痛{とうつう}. I think 疼痛 fits the description, but I hardly see it in use;
instead, the pain is described in some other way.

