epicritic

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adj. Of or relating to sensory nerve fibers that enable the perception of slight differences in the intensity of stimuli, especially touch or temperature.

Greek epikritikos, decisive, from epikritēs, decider, from epikrīnein, to decide : epi-, epi- + krīnein, to judge; see krei- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth 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.
“_Protopathic sensibility_ is of a lower order than 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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