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Yes. Pain is sometimes difficult to pinpoint. And some types of pain tend to radiate. That means that they either seem to travel along a line, as in nerve pain, or are connected somehow to another part, like in muscles.

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What is an sympathetic pain?

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Does the eye feel pain?

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Why a malfuction in one system can cause symptoms in another system?

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Do tumors pressing on the brain cause crying?

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