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  2. Pain scale - Wikipedia

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    A Chinese pain scale diagram, rating pain on a scale of 1 to 10. A pain scale measures a patient's pain intensity or other features. Pain scales are a common communication tool in medical contexts, and are used in a variety of medical settings. Pain scales are a necessity to assist with better assessment of pain and patient screening.

  3. Ovoid (projective geometry) - Wikipedia

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    For an ovoid and a hyperplane , which contains at least two points of , the subset is an ovoid (or an oval, if d = 3) within the hyperplane . For finite projective spaces of dimension d ≥ 3 (i.e., the point set is finite, the space is pappian [ 1 ] ), the following result is true:

  4. Glossary of botanical terms - Wikipedia

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    A type of fruit, usually woody, ovoid to globular, including scales, bract s, or bracteoles arranged around a central axis, e.g. in gymnosperms, especially conifers and Casuarina. conflorescence A rarely used term describing substantial differences between the overall structure of an inflorescence and that of its individual branches, e.g. the ...

  5. Oval - Wikipedia

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    An ovoid is the surface in 3-dimensional space generated by rotating an oval curve about one of its axes of symmetry. The adjectives ovoidal and ovate mean having the characteristic of being an ovoid, and are often used as synonyms for "egg-shaped".

  6. Category:Pain scales - Wikipedia

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    Pain scales are tools that can help health care providers diagnose or measure a patients pain's intensity. The most widely used scales are visual , verbal , numerical or some combination of all three forms.

  7. Schmidt sting pain index - Wikipedia

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    The Schmidt sting pain index is a pain scale rating the relative pain caused by different hymenopteran stings. It is mainly the work of Justin O. Schmidt, who was an entomologist at the Carl Hayden Bee Research Center in Arizona. Schmidt published a number of works on the subject and claimed to have been stung by the majority of stinging ...

  8. Pain assessment - Wikipedia

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    1.name 2.age 3.sex 4.occupation 5.address 6.chief complaint of patient 7.history of patient:- present illness history past illness history medical history family history personal history 8.pain site of pain nature of pain quantity of pain on v.a.s scale type of pain 9.examination active movement passive movement 10.observation gait posture r.o ...

  9. Threshold of pain - Wikipedia

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    So, if a hotplate on a person's skin begins to hurt at 42 °C (107 °F), that is the pain threshold temperature for that bit of skin at that time. It is not the pain threshold (which is internal/subjective) but the temperature at which the pain threshold was crossed (which is external/objective).