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adjective Sensing pain, pressure, heat, or cold in a nonspecific manner, usually without localizing the stimulus. Used especially of certain sensory nerves.

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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.
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.

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From Medieval Greek prōtopathēs, affected first, from Greek prōtopathein, to feel first : prōto-, proto- + pathos, experience, feeling.

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from protopathia + -ic.

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/proʊtəˈpæθɪk/

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