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An Annotated Glossary for the Study of Pain

The following overview is supplemented by a number of background articles that following. The author's hope is to integrate this information into a more cohesive single article someday. For now it must serve as a collection of related material emanating from 12 years of personal research. I hope to be able to structure it as a category, but I'm unsure as yet where such a category might best fall in Wikipedia's taxonomic structure.

Idiopathic Chronic_pain. Millions of individuals suffer chronic pain attributed to a variety of ailments, in which cases the actual method of action of the pain response is not well understood. By that I mean that the severity and/or the duration of the pain cannot be traced to a trauma or other specific response initiator that could be expected to produce the level and duration of pain experienced by the patient. Historically, this idiopathic pain too often has been assumed to be psychogenic, manipulative, hysterionic, or simply dellusory [citation needed].