Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Sensing pain, pressure, heat, or cold in a nonspecific manner, usually without localizing the stimulus. Used especially of certain sensory nerves.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to the original lesion of a disease; primary.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Relating to a
sensory nerve that detects the presence of astimulus without determining itslocation . - adjective Relating to first symptoms of a disease, as in the sense of protopathic bias
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From Medieval Greek prōtopathēs, affected first, from Greek prōtopathein, to feel first : prōto-, proto- + pathos, experience, feeling.]
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Examples
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# -- Three kinds of sensory impulses pass from the periphery to the brain; (1) deep, or muscular sensibility, (2) protopathic sensibility, and (3) epicritic sensibility.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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The fibres concerned are non-medullated and regenerate comparatively quickly after injury, so that protopathic sensibility is regained before epicritic.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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