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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The perception of pain, resulting from neural processing of pain stimuli.

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  • noun The physiological process underlying the sensation of pain.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From nociceptor.]

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