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Noun: painful sensation
  1. A somatic sensation of acute discomfort
    "as the intensity increased the sensation changed from tickle to painful sensation";
    - pain, pain sensation

Derived forms: painful sensations

Type of: somaesthesia [Brit, Cdn], somatesthesia, somatic sensation, somesthesia [N. Amer]

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