Pain

Question 1

Anesthesia

Answer 1

The blockage of feeling, including pain

Question 2

Analgesia

Answer 2

Relief of pain without total loss of feeling or muscle movement

Question 3

Hyperalegsia

Answer 3

Heightened sense of pain to noxious stimuli. Painful stimulus perceived as more painful

Question 4

Hyperesthesia

Answer 4

Abnomral increase in sensitivity to stimulus

Question 5

Allodynia

Answer 5

Pain resulting from normally painless stimuli

Question 6

Dysesthesia

Answer 6

Unpleasant sensations

Question 7

Hyperpathia

Answer 7

All stimuli (noxious and innocuous) more intense.

Question 8

Nociceptors

Answer 8

Pain sensing nerves

Question 9

Neuropathic pain

Answer 9

• Chronic pain occurring when CNS nerves are damaged.

- ->Send incorrect signals

Question 10

Nociceptive pain

Answer 10

Stimulation from pain receptors.

Question 11

Idiopathic pain

Answer 11

No apparent cause

Question 12

Psychogenic

Answer 12

No physical cause found, but is real.

Question 13

Drug dependence

Answer 13

Body becomes conditioned to a drug to such a degree that it is required for function, and without withdrawal sets in

Question 14

Drug Tolerance

Answer 14

Body adapts to drug, requiring more to achieve a certain effect.

Question 15

Drug addiction

Answer 15

Disease of brain’s reward, motivation, memory (and related) circuitry. Impulsive drug use despite harmful consequences.

Question 16

Pain avoidance behavior

Answer 16

Conscious or unconscious decision to avoid unpleasant feelings. (Cognitive, emotions dn behavioral components). Life limiting.