nociceptive

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Non-nociceptive pain, or neuropathic pain, comes from within the nervous system itself.

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  1. adjective Causing pain. Used of a stimulus.
  2. adjective Caused by or responding to a painful stimulus: a nociceptive spinal reflex.

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  • Inflammatory responses in injured nerves have been recognized as important events initially sensitizing nociceptive neurons and subsequently inducing long-term plasticity in the dorsal root ganglion. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • One pain management specialist wondered if this sort of release might reset the nociceptive transmission paths in the spine, much as capsaicin resets the Substance P level in the peripheral nerves. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • This is approximately how it is organised, but the headings don't make this clear, e.g. the categories "neuropathic pain" and "nociceptive pain" are not equivalent. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • Neurobiological mechanisms that are thought to be enrolled in chronic nociceptive experience have been shown to differ markedly from those activated by acute pain Although in our study both social status and social context modulated the behavioral response to formalin, under present conditions we did not observe any significant interactions between social status and social context on nociception induced by formalin. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • This picture was especially true during the phase of acute pain, i.e. while its injected companion was exhibiting the highest levels of nociceptive response to the formalin injection. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. From nociceptor.

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  1. Latin nocere, inflict injury, + capere, take.
 

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/noʊsɪˈsɛptɪv/
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