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]
Comprehension. Comprehension is the understanding and interpretation of what is read. To be able to accurately understand written material, children need to be able to (1) decode what they read; (2) make connections between what they read and what they already know; and (3) think deeply about what they have read.