Definitions

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  • noun Pain produced by innocuous stimulation of normal skin; may result from sensitization of central pain pathways in migraine

Etymologies

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From Ancient Greek άλλος (állos, "other") and οδύνη (odýni, " sorrow, grief, anguish, unhappiness").

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Examples

  • "If you want to understand conditions like cold allodynia, which is cold pain, you need to find exactly what are the targets," McKemy said.

    R&D Mag - News 2010

  • "If you want to understand conditions like cold allodynia, which is cold pain, you need to find exactly what are the targets," McKemy said.

    Newswise: Latest News 2010

  • Depending on which hospital, my recent dx's have been RSD, Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy, chronic pain syndrome w/ myalgias & arthralgias or progressive polyneuropathy / w/ allodynia & parasthesias.

    Teens talk of prescription drug abuse 2010

  • Common migraine pain condition allodynia also prevalent in cluster headache

    THE MEDICAL NEWS 2010

  • MAP Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced the Company will present additional post-hoc analyses from the FREEDOM-301 Phase 3 trial of its investigational LEVADEX (TM) orally inhaled migraine therapy in two patient subpopulations that are often difficult to treat with current triptan migraine therapies: menstrual migraine and migraine with allodynia.

    FinanzNachrichten.de: Aktuelle Nachrichten 2010

  • Combined administration obviously relieved mechanical allodynia in a quick and stable manner.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles Xiao-Peng Mei 2010

  • Common migraine pain condition allodynia also prevalent in cluster headache

    THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010

  • However, we observed timing, pharmacological, and genetic dissociation of mechanical allodynia and gait alterations.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles Jeffrey Mogil 2010

  • Intrathecal ketamine (10, 100, 1000 ug/kg) or LAA (10, 50, 100 nmol) alleviated SNL-induced mechanical allodynia in a dose-dependent manner respectively.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles Xiao-Peng Mei 2010

  • Cross D, Minoshima S, Morrow T, Paulson P, et al. (2002) A unique representation of heat allodynia in the human brain.

    PLoS Medicine: New Articles 2009

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