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pain sense

pain sense Pain sense is the capacity to feel pain as a sensory experience.

Pain sense is the capacity to feel pain as a sensory experience. In this historical source, it is discussed in terms of how pain thresholds, differences in pain, and the greatest bearable pain can be measured by applying increasing pressure to the skin with an algometer or algesimeter.