phantom limb pain

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   pain felt by an amputee that seems to be located in the missing limb

   Broaderpain

Questions about phantom limb pain

What does phantom limb pain mean?

phantom limb pain means "pain felt by an amputee that seems to be located in the missing limb".

Is phantom limb pain a common word?

phantom limb pain is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.