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A Patient with a Partial Small Bowel Obstruction Describes the Pain

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A patient with a partial small bowel obstruction describes the pain as "cramping, off-and-on pain that spreads over my stomach." What type of pain is this patient experiencing?


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Percentiles

Measures that divide a dataset into 100 equal parts, each portion representing 1% of the dataset, to indicate distribution.

Standard Deviation

A framework for quantifying how much a collection of data points varies or spreads.

Relative Standing

An indication of the position of a value within a dataset, often represented through percentiles, z-scores, or standard scores.

Upper Quartile

The value below which 75% of the data points in a dataset fall, also known as the third quartile.

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