breakbone

• Near-synonym: backbreaking
• Shampooing, as employed in Japan, is not exactly the vigorous breakbone manipulation of the Turks at the namman, and which makes one imagine that every joint in the body must have been dislocated. - 1869 January 5, Dr....

Synonyms: backbreaking

• All felt that their safety was in his hands and that his careful watch and strict enforcement of the quarantine would result in our exemption from the scourge. He was obeyed implicitly, and for a time we escaped the...
• Besides this, yellow fever and scarlatina are two of the gravest maladies on the catalogues of the nosologists, and produce, everywhere, a serious mortality when they prevail. But nobody dies of dengue or breakbone; no,...
• A nickname for the disease is "breakbone" because it feels like your bones are breaking. - [2004, Katherine White, Dengue Fever, Rosen Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 36:

Synonyms: dengue dengue fever dandy fever

• breakbone A chicken's wishbone; also called the breaking bone or pulleybone. - [2000, Robert Hendrickson, editor, The Facts on File Dictionary of American Regionalisms, Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, page 30:

Synonyms: wishing bone furcula merrythought