Definition of Referred pain Referred pain: Pain felt at a site
other than where the cause is situated. An example is the pain
from the pancreas, which is felt in the back. Pain in internal
organs is often referred to sites distant from them. Mechanisms
of referred pain are complex, and are related to innervations of
organs by afferent pain fibers which following similar paths as
the sympathetic nervous system. Last Editorial Review: 9/20/2012
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