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referred pain [ri′fird ′pān] (medicine) Pain felt in one area but originating in another area. 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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