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This article is about physical pain. For pain in a broader sense, see Suffering. For other uses, see Pain (disambiguation).
Pain
ICD-10
| R52 |
ICD-9
| 338 |
DiseasesDB
| 9503 |
MedlinePlus
| 002164 |
MeSH
| D010146 |
Pain, in the sense of physical pain,[1] is a typical sensory experience that may be described as the unpleasant awareness of a noxious stimulus or bodily harm. Individuals experience pain by various daily hurts and aches, and sometimes through more serious injuries or illnesses. For scientific and clinical purposes, pain is defined by the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) as "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage".[2][3] |
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