The subjective characteristic implies that pain is
a. an uncomfortable experience present only in the patient with an intact nervous system.
b. an unpleasant experience accompanied by crying and tachycardia.
c. activation of the sympathetic nervous system from an injury.
d. whatever the patient experiencing it says it is, occurring when that patient says it does.
D
Pain is described as an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage. This definition emphasizes the subjective and multidimensional nature of pain. More specifically, the subjective characteristic implies that pain is whatever the person experiencing it says it is and that it exists whenever he or she says it does.
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