If you get punched in the stomach, why does it hurt?!

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Why does it hurt. Your body has sensors called nerves. A nerve is an enclosed, cable-like bundle of axons (the long, slender projection of a neuron). Neurons are sometimes called nerve cells, though this term is technically imprecise since many neurons do not form nerves, and nerves also include the non-axon glial cells that ensheath the axons in myelin. When you are attacked your nerves sense pain. Pain is defined by the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) as

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If you get punched in the stomach, why does it hurt?!

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