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  2. Congenital insensitivity to pain - Wikipedia

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    Neurology. Congenital insensitivity to pain ( CIP ), also known as congenital analgesia, is one or more extraordinarily rare conditions in which a person cannot feel (and has never felt) physical pain. [1] The conditions described here are separate from the HSAN group of disorders, which have more specific signs and cause.

  3. Stimulus (physiology) - Wikipedia

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    t. e. In physiology, a stimulus [1] is a detectable change in the physical or chemical structure of an organism's internal or external environment. The ability of an organism or organ to detect external stimuli, so that an appropriate reaction can be made, is called sensitivity ( excitability ). [2] Sensory receptors can receive information ...

  4. Pain stimulus - Wikipedia

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    Pain stimulus is a technique used by medical personnel for assessing the consciousness level of a person who is not responding to normal interaction, voice commands or gentle physical stimuli (such as shaking of the shoulders). [1] It forms one part of a number of neurological assessments, including the first aid based AVPU scale and the more ...

  5. Reactive lymphocyte - Wikipedia

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    Reactive lymphocyte. Reactive lymphocyte surrounded by red blood cells. In immunology, reactive lymphocytes, variant lymphocytes, atypical lymphocytes, Downey cells or Türk cells are cytotoxic (CD8 +) lymphocytes that become large as a result of antigen stimulation. Typically, they can be more than 30 μm in diameter with varying size and shape.

  6. Psychogenic non-epileptic seizure - Wikipedia

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    Retraining and Control Therapy (ReACT) ReACT, while new and understudied, has shown extremely promising outcomes for reduction of PNES episodes in pediatric patients. [27] This therapy focuses on the idea that PNES are caused by a learned physical reaction or habit the body develops, similar to a reflex.

  7. Nociceptor - Wikipedia

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    D009619. Anatomical terminology. [ edit on Wikidata] A nociceptor (from Latin nocere 'to harm or hurt'; lit. 'pain receptor') is a sensory neuron that responds to damaging or potentially damaging stimuli by sending "possible threat" signals [1] [2] [3] to the spinal cord and the brain. The brain creates the sensation of pain to direct attention ...

  8. Pain in babies - Wikipedia

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    Diagnosis. Some of the signs of pain in babies are obvious, requiring no special equipment or training. The baby is crying and irritable when awake, develops a disturbed sleep pattern, feeds poorly, and shows a fearful, distrustful reaction towards care-givers. The classical International Association for the Study of Pain definition of pain [9 ...

  9. List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes - Wikipedia

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    Second, medical roots generally go together according to language, i.e., Greek prefixes occur with Greek suffixes and Latin prefixes with Latin suffixes. Although international scientific vocabulary is not stringent about segregating combining forms of different languages, it is advisable when coining new words not to mix different lingual roots.