The nurse, providing pain medication to a client, realizes that all of the following are true about pain, EXCEPT:
a. there are two known endogenous analgesia systems in humans.
b. transmission of visceral pain impulses is faster than impulses from cutaneous pain.
c. internal organs are very sensitive to distension.
d. ischemic pain onsets rapidly in an active muscle.
ANS: B
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