Experiments also showed that healthy subjects who had recently acted selflessly experienced less physical discomfort from needle jabs and electric shocks.

The physical discomfort shows itself in his involuntary efforts to swallow.

While this approach may have prevented the physical discomfort of looking directly at the sun, it did nothing to prevent damage-causing infrared radiation.

They usually involve small amounts of 'delay, boredom and physical discomfort', but they make society run smoothly, from which we all benefit.

She had betrayed no obvious signs of vocal or physical discomfort.