protopathic sensation

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• pain — The sensation one feels when hurt. A protopathic sensation located in the nervous system. 22 Am J2d Damg § 105. Distress of the body or the mind. See mental anguish; physical suffering; suffering …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• suffering — Physical pain; mental anguish. There is no adequate definition of pain; the best that can be done is to describe a reaction to pain. This reaction is the body s awareness of unpleasant changes or activities that call attention to a particular… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• Anterolateral system — In the nervous system, the anterolateral system is an ascending pathway that conveys pain, temperature (protopathic sensation), and crude touch from the periphery to the brain. It comprises three main pathways:External links*… …   Wikipedia

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• sensory reception, human — Introduction  means by which humans react to changes in external and internal environments.   Ancient philosophers called the human senses “the windows of the soul,” and Aristotle described at least five senses sight, hearing, smell, taste, and… …   Universalium

• epicritic — That aspect of somatic sensation which permits the discrimination and the topographical localization of the finer degrees of touch and temperature stimuli. Cf.:protopathic. [G. epikritikos, adjudicatory, fr. epi, on, + krino, to separate, judge]… …   Medical dictionary

• sensibility — The consciousness of sensation; the capability of perceiving sensible stimuli. [L. sensibilitas] articular s. appreciation of sensation in joint surfaces. SYN: arthresthesia, joint sense. bone s. SYN: pallesthesia …   Medical dictionary

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• epicritic — adj. describing or relating to sensory nerve fibres responsible for the fine degrees of sensation, as of temperature and touch. Compare: protopathic …   The new mediacal dictionary

• epicritic — |epə|krid.ik adjective Etymology: Greek epikritikos determinative, from epikritos (verbal of epikrinein) + ikos ic 1. of cutaneous reception : marked by accurate discrimination between small degrees of sensation (as of heat, cold, and pain) 2. of …   Useful english dictionary