Pain

Question 1

Hyperalgesia

Answer 1

painful stimuli perceived as more painful (pain exceeds stimuli)

Question 2

Hyperpathia

Answer 2

all stimuli (noxious and innocuous) are more intense

Question 3

Allodynia

Answer 3

nonpainful stimuli (innocuous) are perceived as painful (clothing on skin)

Question 4

Dysesthesia

Answer 4

unpleasant sensations

Question 5

Spontaneous Pain

Answer 5

pain in the absence of a stimulus

Question 6

Chronic Pain

Answer 6

pathological - abnormal, weeks to years, mismatch stimulus to pain, disturbed nervous system (peripheral, central)

Question 7

Acute Pain

Answer 7

physiological - normal, short-lived, protective- prevent further injury, nervous system (sensory, affective, autonomic)

Question 8

Bone pain

Answer 8

aching, gnawing, deep

Question 9

neuropathic pain

Answer 9

tingling, sharp and sudden burst of pain, shooting, electric burning

Question 10

visceral

Answer 10

deep, aching, colicky, squeezing (hard to localize)

Question 11

pain pathway

Answer 11

ongoing cycle - perception, modulation, transmission, transduction

Question 12

pain - neural communications

Answer 12

limbic system, thalamus, RF, and cortex produce rxn (fear, anxiety, crying)

Question 13

primary

Answer 13

stimuli - to dorsal horn

Question 14

secondary

Answer 14

central spinal cord - crosses over - lower levels of brain

Question 15

tertiary

Answer 15

out to cortex - higher sequence of thinking

Question 16

thermonocicpetirs

Answer 16

heat

Question 17

mechanonociceptors

Answer 17

painful, touch, pressure

Question 18

a-beta fibers

Answer 18

(neurotransmitter) glutamate - excitatory amino acids

Question 19

a-deta fibers

Answer 19

(neurotransmitter) glutamate -

Question 20

c-fibers

Answer 20

substance p (highest level - very painful)

Question 21

physiologic dose

Answer 21

the amount of adrenocorticoids normally secreted by the adrenal cortex