The phrase "highly painful" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to emphasize the degree to which an experience is painful. For example, "I had to undergo highly painful surgery after being in a serious car accident."
In August 2013, a 44-year-old woman (bookkeeper) came to an outpatient clinic with fever (temperature ≤38.7°C), chills, a mild headache, severe fatigue, highly painful swelling of small finger joints, and pain in both feet.
In the achievement based view of climbing failure has potentially highly painful, but also emotionally traumatic results.
The chronic and often highly painful condition affects a woman's reproductive organs and can result in heavy periods, pain and infertility.
And sometimes, especially if your immune system is suppressed for some reason, or if you're elderly, the virus wakes up and causes shingles, a cluster of highly painful blisterlike bumps on the skin of whichever piece of your body that particular nerve root happens to connect up with.
Over three days in Kessler's courtroom in October, lawyers for the human rights group Reprieve argued that the forced feedings, typically conducted on a restrained detainee via a tube fed into the stomach through the nose, were both highly painful and medically unnecessary.
As in Philippe de Broca's "King of Hearts" (1966), which "House of Fools" resembles to a highly painful degree, the viewer is given to understand that the gentle, childlike inmates are far saner than the generals and politicians who run the big, brutal outside world.
A high-threat conditioned stimulus (CS) was paired with either an unpredictable, highly aversive (painful) or non-aversive (non-painful) unconditioned stimulus and compared to a low-threat CS paired with a predictable, non-aversive stimulus.
This is a highly personal, painful and often heart-rending choice we make for ourselves and sometimes for our loved ones when faced with the inevitable end of life.
FM is a pain amplification syndrome of patients who are highly sensitive to painful and non-painful stimuli, including touch, heat, cold, chemicals, light, sound, and smell.
Some of the comics that are displayed may raise issues that are highly contradictory or painful to contemplate.
Beginning in 1969, an enterovirus has caused tens of millions of cases of a highly contagious, acute, painful, but rarely blinding, form of hemorrhagic eye inflammation.
