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.
Between the clusters of headaches are pain-free times that can last months or even years. Cluster headaches affect men more frequently than women. Pain from cluster headache is typically on one side of the head and in the worst attacks the pain can be excruciating. Pain may also be bilateral and non-throbbing. There are two types of cluster headaches, episodic and chronic. This type of cluster headaches have clearly defined groups of headache attacks.