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Pain is defined by the International Association for Study of Pain (IASP; 1981) as “an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage.” Pain is also referred to in a subjective sense as a feeling, and pain is considered to exist in a patient if he/she says they have pain.
In addition, it is also necessary to define the following terms as a glossary of terms related to “pain.”
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Turk DC, Okifuji A. Pain terms and taxonomies of pain. In: Fishman SM, Ballantyne JC, Rathmell JB, editors. Bonica’s management of pain. 4th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2010. p. 13–20.
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Iida, H. (2019). Definition. In: Ohseto, K., Uchino, H., Iida, H. (eds) Nerve Blockade and Interventional Therapy. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54660-3_3
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