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Pain
Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience. The sensory pain is classified into three types depending on the source [2].
- Nociceptive pain
- Inflammatory pain
- Pathological pain
Depending on the duration, pain is also classified into transient pain, acute pain, and chronic pain [2].
Definitions in the literature
- ... pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage [1].
