...Oriented Quality Measurement Evaluation System) can be accessed and downloaded ROMA LEE TAUNTON p Pain Pain is "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential damage or described in terms of such damage; pain is always subjective" (International Association...

...International Association for the Study of Pain (http//www.iasppain.org/PCU93a.html) defines pain as "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage." The sensation of pain is one of the modalities of somatic sensation that include mechanosensation,...

...of pain sensation • endorphins: inhibit pain pathways. Pain and sensation • Pain is defined as an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage. • Pain can be classified into: • nociceptive; somatic and visceral • referred • neuropathic...

...definition of pain, produced by the International Association for the Study of Pain, is as follows: Pain is 'an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential damage, or described in terms of such damage, and pain is always subjective. Each individual learns...

...reflex responses caused by an event that damages or threatens to damage tissue. Pain, on the other hand, is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue injury. Pain is subjective; nociception isn't. Nociception doesn't necessarily cause the perception...

...accepted definition recommended by the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP), namely, that pain is "an unpleasant sensory and emotional...associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage." Since the painful experience is associated with or described in...

...briefly described. DEFINITION OF PAIN The International Association for the Study of Pain (I ASP) defines pain is "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience...associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage." [1-3] In this definition, it is important to emphasize that pain...

...heed: to kindness, to knowledge we make promises only: to pain we obey. Marcel Proust (1871-1922)2 Pain is 'an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience,...associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage'.3 Pain is what the patient says hurts. This by now well-accepted...

...Pain, Nociception, and Suffering According to the International Association for the Study of Pain, pain is "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience...associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage" (5). To clarify the approach to pain assessment, it is useful to...

...infant; we have been unable to see the direct relevance of this work to the question of abortion. 50. Pain is "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience...associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage".55 We may never know whether foetuses feel pain. As Dr Stuart Derbyshire...