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Pain of Truth
Pain of Truth is a Long Island, New York hardcore band formed in 2020 by Michael Smith. Known for guest-vocal features on No Blame… Just Facts and Not Through Blood, and the feature-free self-titled 2026 LP on DAZE Records.
Pain reprocessing therapy
Pain reprocessing therapy (PRT) is a psychological treatment for primary chronic pain that helps patients reattribute pain to nondangerous brain activity rather than tissue injury.
Pain scale
Pain scale: instruments for measuring pain intensity, chiefly the Numerical Rating Scale (NRS), Verbal Rating Scale (VRS), Visual Analogue Scale (VAS), Wong-Baker FACES, and observational scales like FLACC and PAINAD for nonverbal patients.
Pain suisse
Pain suisse (brioche suisse, pépito) is a rectangular French viennoiserie of leavened flaky pastry filled with vanilla crème pâtissière and chocolate chips; despite the name it is not Swiss and is a variant of pain au chocolat or pain aux raisins.
Pain Threshold
Pain threshold: the minimum stimulus intensity perceived as painful (IASP definition); distinct from pain tolerance. Measured psychophysically via QST methods of limits or levels, with pressure, thermal, and electrical stimuli; reliability varies by modality.
Paina Mound
Paina Mound, at Paina village near Ghazipur in Fatehpur district, Uttar Pradesh, is an ancient fortified-town site attributed to the Chandella dynasty, with traceable walls, gates, towers, and a moated citadel; a centrally protected ASI monument.
Paine Schwartz Food Chain
Paine Schwartz Food Chain is the series of private equity funds raised by Paine Schwartz Partners, a New York firm investing exclusively in food and agribusiness.
Painkili
Painkili (പൈങ്കിളി) is a 2025 Malayalam romantic comedy directed by debutant Sreejith Babu, written by Jithu Madhavan, produced by Fahadh Faasil, starring Sajin Gopu and Anaswara Rajan; released 14 February 2025, streamed on ManoramaMAX from 11 April 2025.
Painkiller (group)
Painkiller is an avant-jazz and grindcore supergroup formed in New York in 1991 by John Zorn, Bill Laswell, and Napalm Death drummer Mick Harris, reuniting in 2024.
Painkiller (Judas Priest album)
Painkiller is the twelfth studio album by English heavy metal band Judas Priest, released in 1990 and Rob Halford's last with the band for 13 years.
Painkiller (TV series)
Painkiller is a 2023 Netflix six-episode limited drama series about the opioid crisis and Purdue Pharma's OxyContin, created by Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster, directed by Peter Berg, starring Matthew Broderick, Uzo Aduba, and Taylor Kitsch, based on Barry Meier's book and Patrick Radden Keefe's New Yorker article; distinct from the Paramount+ docuseries Painkiller: The Tylenol Murders.
Painkiller (video game)
Painkiller (2004) is a dark-fantasy arena FPS by People Can Fly, published by DreamCatcher; Daniel Garner fights Lucifer's generals in Purgatory with Havok physics and tarot cards. Metacritic 81; CPL 2005 World Tour game; spawned Hell & Damnation and a 2025 Anshar Studios reimagining.
Painless thyroiditis
Painless thyroiditis, also called silent or subacute lymphocytic thyroiditis, is an autoimmune thyroid inflammation causing transient thyrotoxicosis without neck pain, often followed by a hypothyroid phase.
Painlevé analysis
Painlevé analysis is a singularity-based technique testing whether nonlinear differential equations have only pole-type movable singularities, used to detect integrability and construct exact solutions, Lax pairs, and Bäcklund transformations.
Painlevé paradox
The Painlevé paradox is a breakdown of determinism in rigid-body equations with Coulomb friction, identified by Paul Painlevé in 1895: the equations admit no solution or several.
PaiNN
PaiNN, short for polarizable atom interaction neural network, is a graph neural network for molecules that extends message passing with equivariant vector features, proposed at ICML 2021 by Schütt, Unke, and Gastegger of TU Berlin.
Paint
Paint is a fluid or semi-fluid material applied as a thin film to protect or decorate surfaces, made of a binder, pigments, and an evaporating solvent or water carrier.
Paint (2023 film)
Paint (2023) is an American comedy written and directed by Brit McAdams, starring Owen Wilson as Bob Ross-inspired Vermont PBS painter Carl Nargle; IFC Films release, $811,739 domestic box office.
Paint 3D
Paint 3D, also known as Microsoft Paint 3D, was a free Microsoft app combining 2D drawing and beginner 3D modeling, released in 2017 and retired in 2024.
Paint It Black
Paint It Black (printed "Paint It, Black" on some releases) is a 1966 Rolling Stones single by Jagger and Richards, featuring Brian Jones's sitar, that hit number 1 in the US and UK and became a Vietnam War film staple.
Paint Your Wagon (film)
Paint Your Wagon (1969) is a Joshua Logan musical western, adapted by Alan Jay Lerner and Paddy Chayefsky from the 1951 Lerner and Loewe Broadway show, starring Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, and Jean Seberg; filmed in Oregon, it cost about $20 million and flopped.
Paint Your Wagon (musical)
Paint Your Wagon is a 1951 Lerner and Loewe Broadway musical set in the 1853 California Gold Rush, running 289 performances at the Shubert Theatre, later adapted into the 1969 Joshua Logan film starring Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood, and known for 'They Call the Wind Maria.'
Paintball
Paintball: team shooting sport using gelatin dye capsules fired from compressed-air markers; first played 1981 in New Hampshire, governed by the UPBF, with ASTM F1776 eye protection standards and documented severe eye injury risk.
Painted bunting
Painted bunting (Passerina ciris, nonpareil, azulillo sietecolores), a small North American cardinalid songbird; males blue-headed, green-backed, red-bellied; two populations, declining about 33% since 1966, trapped for cage-bird trade.
Painted Churches in the Troodos Region
Painted Churches in the Troodos Region: serial UNESCO World Heritage Site of ten Byzantine and post-Byzantine churches in Cyprus, inscribed 1985 and extended 2001, with 11th-16th century frescoes and steep wooden roofs.
Painted Coffin of Lady Dai
The Painted Coffin of Lady Dai (马王堆彩绘棺) is the black-ground lacquered coffin from Mawangdui Tomb 1 at Changsha, Hunan, made for Xin Zhui, who died in 168 BCE.
Painted Desert (Arizona)
Painted Desert (Arizona): colorful badlands of the Late Triassic Chinle Formation in northern Arizona, named El Desierto Pintado by Spanish explorers, extending from the Grand Canyon to Petrified Forest National Park.
Painted Fire
Painted Fire (취화선, Chihwaseon) is Im Kwon-taek's 2002 Korean biographical drama about painter Jang Seung-up (Ohwon), starring Choi Min-sik; it shared Cannes 2002 Best Director and won Blue Dragon Best Film.
Painted Grey Ware culture
Painted Grey Ware culture: Iron Age material culture of northern South Asia, c. 1100–500/400 BCE, named after fine wheel-made grey pottery with black painted designs; over 848 sites from Punjab to the Ganga plains, succeeded by Northern Black Polished Ware.
Painted Lacquer Screen from the Tomb of Sima Jinlong
The Painted Lacquer Screen from the Tomb of Sima Jinlong (司马金龙墓漆画屏风) is a set of lacquer screen panels painted around 484 and excavated in 1965 near Datong, Shanxi.