Examples of occasional in a Sentence. She receives occasional phone calls from her mother. There will be occasional showers during the morning. Most mornings, we'll see deer or the occasional bear walking past our house. He tells an occasional joke to keep his students interested. I need to take occasional breaks from work. Sure, I drink an occasional glass of wine from time to time. She's an occasional lecturer at the university.
The different kinds of pain. There are three basic types of pain, depending upon what physical mechanism in the body is causing the symptom: somatic, neuropathic, and visceral. A fourth kind, mixed, is a combination of the others. It's important to know what basic kind of pain is present, because treatment differs.
Types of Nociceptive Pain: 1  Superficial Somatic Pain - Somatic pain is the pain you feel when you have an injury, which typically improves with healing and is gone when healing is complete. Superficial (surface) somatic pain includes cuts, bruises, burns and the skin wound aspect of surgical incisions.