nociceptive

“One, sometimes called nociceptive pain, results from damage to tissues, as from arthritis or a burn.”

Archive 2005-02-01

“Adenosine A1 receptors mediate local anti-nociceptive effects of acupuncture”

The Wall Street Journal: How Acupuncture May Work

“On the contrary, as the science of pain has unearthed in the last forty years or so, there are physiologically specialized systems that process nociceptive stimuli from the moment they effect peripheral receptors to the central processing of these signals in the spinal cord and the brain.”

Pain

“Moreover, on her view, it is a fatal mistake to take this subjective sensation of pain as the nature of pain because she thinks that a biologically more realistic objective understanding of pain involving the various systems processing nociceptive information will serve our scientific purposes much better and the commonsense understanding of pain should follow that.”

Pain

“Activity induced in the nociceptor and nociceptive pathways by a noxious stimulus is not pain, which is always a psychological state, even though we may well appreciate that pain most often has a proximate physical cause.”

Pain

“(Nociceptors are peripheral nerve endings specialized to respond, normally, only to potentially damaging stimuli, i.e., to nociceptive stimuli).”

Pain

“Morphine inhibits the nociceptive neural pathways at multiple sites.”

Regarding The CAT Scan Of Terri Schiavo’s Brain

“Anatomic studies have shown that the density of cutaneous nociceptive nerve endings in the late fetus and newborn infant equal or exceed that of adult skin.”

The 25th Anniversary Of Roe v Wade: The Test Of Time

“GRT 6005 has completed proof-of-concept studies in nociceptive and neuropathic pain.”

Forest Laboratories Q3 2011 Earnings Call Transcript - Seeking Alpha