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- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Pain
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke - Pain
- WebMD - Types of Pain
- Medicine LibreTexts - Pain
- The Nemours Foundation - For Kids - Why Do I Have Pain?
- National Center for Biotechnology Information - Physiology, Pain
- Healthline - Everything you Need to Know About Pain
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pain, complex experience consisting of a physiological and a psychological response to a noxious stimulus. Pain is a warning mechanism that protects an organism by influencing it to withdraw from harmful stimuli; it is primarily associated with injury or the threat of injury. Pain is subjective and difficult to quantify, because it has both an affective and a sensory component. Although the neuroanatomic basis of pain reception develops before birth, individual pain responses are learned in early childhood and are affected by social, cultural, psychological, cognitive, and genetic factors, among others. Those factors account for differences in pain tolerance among ...(100 of 3220 words)