referred pain

1. 1.

   pain that is felt at a place in the body different from the injured or diseased part where the pain would be expected

   “angina pectoris can cause referred pain in the left shoulder”

   “pain in the right shoulder can be referred pain from gallbladder disease”

   Broaderpain

Questions about referred pain

What does referred pain mean?

referred pain means "pain that is felt at a place in the body different from the injured or diseased part where the pain would be expected".

Is referred pain a common word?

referred 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.