threshold of pain
physiology
Also known as: threshold of feeling
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assessment of pain levels
- In pain: Psychology of pain
…painful is the pain perception threshold; most studies have found that point to be relatively similar among disparate groups of people. However, the pain tolerance threshold, the point at which pain becomes unbearable, varies significantly among those groups. A stoical, nonemotional response to an injury may be a sign of…
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dynamic range of the ear
- In sound: Dynamic range of the ear
…pressure fluctuation associated with the threshold of pain, meanwhile, is over 10 pascals—one million times the pressure or one trillion times the intensity of the threshold of hearing. In both cases, the enormous dynamic range of the ear dictates that its response to changes in frequency and intensity must be…
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