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pain noun ache, adversity, affliction, aggravation, agony, ailment, anguish, blight, calamity, disability, disease, displeasure, distress, dolor, grief, grievvus trouble, hurt, ill, infliction, injury, malady, malaise, ordeal, pang, sickness, sore, soreness, sorrow, strong discomfort, suffering, torment, unease, woe, worry Associated concepts: pain and suffering See also: aggravate, anguish, annoy, distress, insult, irritate, nuisance, offend, perturb, pique, plague How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| In the title story, the son of Holocaust survivors empathizes with the torture his parents must have experienced when he undergoes a series of agonizing dental procedures; hence referred pain becomes a metaphor for these fictional characters trapped by their own psychic pain. Centralization phenomenon: its usefulness in evaluating and treating referred pain. Facial or referred pain occurring with a facial nerve paralysis suggests neoplastic invasion of the facial nerve. |
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