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Specifically, visceral pain of abdominal origin often presents as diffuse and poorly defined sensations of varying intensities. This characteristic arises from relatively sparse sensory innervation of visceral organs and divergent nature of visceral inputs. In addition, visceral noxious stimuli differ\u00a0significantly from somatic pain triggers. Perception of visceral noxious stimuli from abdominal organs starts with transduction of signals at peripheral processes of sensory neurons, and transmission of these impulses to cortical centers, processing pain. Pathways concerned with nociceptive signaling from abdomen include intricate meshwork of neurons interconnecting different functional loci within nervous system. This review brings together current concepts on how\u00a0abdominal pain is processed at several interconnected levels. 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