Pain
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- Objects which in themselves we view with pain, we delight to contemplate when reproduced with minute fidelity: such as the forms of the most ignoble animals and of dead bodies. --Aristotle via the Poetics.
An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.
In scientific and medical literature the term pain threshold indicates the minimum stimulus which elicits pain (as reported by the subject) and is clearly differentiated from the term pain tolerance which indicates the degree of pain which a subject can tolerate before experiencing physical or emotional impairment and involves a measurement of a subject's response to pain. Compare this to absolute threshold, which is the lowest level of stimulus that is physiologically detectable.
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