Pain control helps improve the patient's quality of life. Oral and facial pain can affect eating, talking, and many other activities that involve the head, neck, mouth, and throat. Most patients with head and neck cancers have pain. The doctor may ask the patient to rate the pain using a rating system.
Learner's definition of COMPREHENSION. : ability to understand. [noncount] He has not the slightest comprehension of the subject. [=he does not understand the subject at all] The students showed excellent reading/language comprehension. The war caused suffering beyond comprehension. [=suffering that is impossible to imagine]
Language, dialect, jargon, vernacular refer to linguistic configurations of vocabulary, syntax, phonology, and usage that are characteristic of communities of various sizes and types. Language is a broad term applied to the overall linguistic configurations that allow a particular people to communicate: the English language; the French language.