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The purpose of this study was to develop new approaches to the problem of describing and measuring pain in human subjects. Words used to describe pain were brought together and categorized, and an attempt was made to scale them on a common intensity dimension. The data show that: 1) there are many w
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- 1971
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- article
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- 34
- Issue
- 1
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- 50-59
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- 923
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Ronald Melzack,
Warren S. Torgerson
(1971).
On the Language of Pain.
Anesthesiology
, 34
(1)
, 50-59.
https://doi.org/10.1097/00000542-197101000-00017
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- 10.1097/00000542-197101000-00017