A client is complaining of severe abdomen pain. The nurse realizes this client is experiencing which type of pain?
1. Neuralgia
2. Pathological
3. Somatic
4. Visceral
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Visceral pain is pain arising from the body organs or gastrointestinal tract. Somatic pain is pain that originates from the bone, joints, muscles, skin, or connective pain. Neuralgia and pathological pain are both types of pain that result from injury to a nerve or malfunction of the neuronal transmission process or due to impaired regulation.
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