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kshipps

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If you receive exactly the same painful stimulus to your hand or your back, which will feel more pain, and why?
 
  A) Your back, because it has larger surface area
  B) Your hand, because it has much thinner skin
  C) Your back, because it has more pain receptors
  D) Your hand, because it has more pain receptors

Question 2

When pain is experienced in some other location than the site where the pain was inflicted, this is called
 
  A) phantom limb pain.
  B) referred pain.
  C) prechronic pain.
  D) chronic recurrent pain.



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Sassygurl126

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Answer to Question 1

D

Answer to Question 2

B




kshipps

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Reply 2 on: Jun 21, 2018
Excellent


xthemafja

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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

 

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