How does the International Association for the Study of Pain define the sensation of pain?
a. Unpleasant sensory and emotional expe-rience
b. Whatever the person experiencing it says it is
c. Psychogenic response to tissue injury
d. Physical and psychogenic response to the need for drugs
A
The International Association for the Study of Pain defines pain as an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience.
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