Pain and its Management Flashcards
_______is the capital symptom of humans—the great
hallmark of disease—the signal par excellence to the
patient and doctor that all is not well.
Pain
Pain is defined as ‘an unpleasant ___________
experience associated with actual or potential tissue
damage or described in terms of such damage
sensory and motional
______ due to a stimulus that does not normally
provoke pain
Allodynia Pain
_______Pain in an area or region that is
anaesthetic.
Anaesthesia dolorosa
______ A syndrome of sustained burning pain,
allodynia and hyperpathia after a traumatic nerve
lesion, often combined with vasomotor and sudomotor
dysfunction and later trophic changes (now known as
complex regional pain syndrome
Causalgia
_____ Pain associated with a lesion of the
central nervous system
Central pain
________An unpleasant abnormal sensation,
whether spontaneous or evoked (e.g. formication—a
feeling like ants crawling on the skin).
Dysaesthesia
_________ Increased sensitivity to stimulation,
excluding the special senses
Hyperaesthesia
_________An increased response to a stimulus
that is normally painful (i.e. painful stimulus feels much more painful than expected, such as firm finger
pressure).
Hyperalgesia
_______A painful syndrome, characterised by an
increased reaction to a stimulus, especially a repetitive
stimulus, as well as an increased threshold for sensory
detection
Hyperpathia
________ Pain that occurs on, or is exacerbated
by, an activity (e.g. coughing, wound dressing,
movement, weight-bearing
Incident pain
_________ Pain caused by a lesion or disease of
the somatosensory nervous system
Neuropathic pain
________ Pain arising from stimulation of
superficial or deep tissue pain receptors (nociceptors)
from tissue injury or inflammation. From Latin ‘nocere’,
to injure
Nociceptive pain
__________ The sensation of the presence of a
missing body part
Phantom pain
__________Pain that has the qualities of pain
arising from a physical (somatic) cause but not
attributable to any objectively demonstrable organic
causation (i.e. the expression of psychological distress
as physical symptoms).
Somatoform pain
_______A type of nociceptive pain that originates
from activation of nociceptives of internal viscera
(organs).
Visceral pain
Nociception
is stimulation of_______ (i.e.
nerve endings sensitive to a noxious stimulus).
peripheral nociceptors
__________ is a form of
neurogenic pain in which there is actual nerve cell or axonal damage due to inflammation,
trauma or degenerative disease
Neuropathic pain
______ is pain arising in the absence
of any discernible injury and where the
predominant aetiology is psychological or
psychiatric
Psychogenic pain
