A patient with traumatic injuries describes his current pain as being "unbearable." The pathophysiology of pain begins with a signal from
A) myelin sheaths.
B) nociceptors.
C) baroceptors.
D) synapses.
B
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For a person to feel pain, the signal from nociceptors in peripheral tissues must be transmitted to the spinal cord, then to the hypothalamus and cerebral cortex in the brain. Myelin sheaths, synapses, and baroceptors are not directly involved in pain transmission.
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