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Definitions Flashcards

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Hypoalgesia

A

Decreased pain from something that normally causes pain

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Visceral pain

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Type of nociceptive pain carried along a sympathetic fiber

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Type 1 CRPS is AKA

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Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy

Sudeck’s Atrophy

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Nociceptive pain

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Pain from nonneural tissue damage that transmits painful stimulus through nociceptive fibers

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Dysesthesia

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Unpleasant sensation

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Somatic pain

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Type of nociceptive pain carried along a sensory fiber

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Type 2 CRPS is AKA

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Causalgia

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Neuropathic pain

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Pain from a nerve lesion affecting somatosensory system

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Neurogenic pain

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Pain from a nerve lesion

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Allodynia

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Pain elicited from non-painful stimulus

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Hypoesthesia

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Decreased sensitivity to a stimulus

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Hyperalgesia

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Increased pain from something that normally causes pain

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Parasthesia

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Abnormal sensation

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14
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Neuralgia

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Pain in a distribution of nerves

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Hyperesthesia

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Increased sensitivity to a stimulus

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Type 2 CRPS

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Traumatic nerve injury resulting in CRPS

17
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Neuritis

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Inflammation of a nerve

18
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Type 1 CRPS

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Non-neurological traumatic injury resulting in CRPS

19
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Hyperpathia

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Abnormally painful reaction to a stimulus that normally causes pain, usually seen with repetitive stimulus

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