Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Causing pain. Used of a stimulus.
- adjective Caused by or responding to a painful stimulus.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In neurology, receptive of injury.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of a stimulus Causing
pain . - adjective of a reflex, etc. Caused by pain.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective caused by or in response to pain
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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One, sometimes called nociceptive pain, results from damage to tissues, as from arthritis or a burn.
Archive 2005-02-01 Emma Goldman 2005
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One, sometimes called nociceptive pain, results from damage to tissues, as from arthritis or a burn.
Does bullshit cause depression? Emma Goldman 2005
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Adenosine A1 receptors mediate local anti-nociceptive effects of acupuncture
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On the contrary, as the science of pain has unearthed in the last forty years or so, there are physiologically specialized systems that process nociceptive stimuli from the moment they effect peripheral receptors to the central processing of these signals in the spinal cord and the brain.
Pain Aydede, Murat 2009
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Moreover, on her view, it is a fatal mistake to take this subjective sensation of pain as the nature of pain because she thinks that a biologically more realistic objective understanding of pain involving the various systems processing nociceptive information will serve our scientific purposes much better and the commonsense understanding of pain should follow that.
Pain Aydede, Murat 2009
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Activity induced in the nociceptor and nociceptive pathways by a noxious stimulus is not pain, which is always a psychological state, even though we may well appreciate that pain most often has a proximate physical cause.
Pain Aydede, Murat 2009
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(Nociceptors are peripheral nerve endings specialized to respond, normally, only to potentially damaging stimuli, i.e., to nociceptive stimuli).
Pain Aydede, Murat 2009
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Morphine inhibits the nociceptive neural pathways at multiple sites.
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Anatomic studies have shown that the density of cutaneous nociceptive nerve endings in the late fetus and newborn infant equal or exceed that of adult skin.
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GRT 6005 has completed proof-of-concept studies in nociceptive and neuropathic pain.
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qms commented on the word nociceptive
The master must make his objective
Instruction that's clear and effective.
The best way to train
Is with a quick cane
For young'uns are quite nociceptive.
April 25, 2017