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91. The division of the nerve at the elbow, or even at the axilla, does not increase the extent of the loss of epicritic or protopathic sensibility, but usually affects deep sensibility Illustration: FIG.— Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition.
_Protopathic sensibility_ is of a lower order than epicritic.— Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
# -- 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.
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.
On the same side below the lesion, there is a loss of epicritic, stereognostic and deep sensibility, and on the opposite side below the lesion, loss of the sense of pain and the discrimination between heat and cold.— Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
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