Examples of occasional in a Sentence. She receives occasional phone calls from her mother. There will be occasional showers during the morning. Most mornings, we'll see deer or the occasional bear walking past our house. He tells an occasional joke to keep his students interested. I need to take occasional breaks from work. Sure, I drink an occasional glass of wine from time to time. She's an occasional lecturer at the university.
The different kinds of pain. There are three basic types of pain, depending upon what physical mechanism in the body is causing the symptom: somatic, neuropathic, and visceral. A fourth kind, mixed, is a combination of the others. It's important to know what basic kind of pain is present, because treatment differs.
Types of Neuropathic Pain: 1  Central Neuropathic Pain (CNP) - Central pain is pain that originates with damage to the brain or spinal cord.  Peripheral Neuropathic Pain - This type of pain originates with nerves that are not part of the brain or spinal cord, such as nerves in the arms and legs.