Pain Tolerance

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
PT
Pronunciation
/peɪn ˈtɑlərəns/
Category
Miscellaneous
Related Field
Unclassified

Examples in Context

  1. There is lowered pain tolerance, lowered resistance to infection.
  2. This substance increases pain tolerance, counters stress and imparts a feeling of well-being.
  3. The level of pain tolerance aries from one person to the next.
  4. The patients were asked to exert to their pain threshold and pain tolerance levels.
  5. Writing in the Journal of Pain, the authors concluded : Swearing increased pain tolerance and heart rate compared with not swearing.

Other meanings of PT