protopathic
Americanadjective
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noting or pertaining to a general, nondiscriminating responsiveness to pain or temperature stimuli (opposed to epicritic).
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primitive; primary.
adjective
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of or relating to a sensory nerve that perceives only coarse stimuli, such as pain
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of or relating to such perception
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The fibres concerned are non-medullated and regenerate comparatively quickly after injury, so that protopathic sensibility is regained before epicritic.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander
Deep sensibility is usually lost over an area almost as extensive as that of protopathic insensibility.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis
Purves Stewart says protopathic sensation is sometimes observed much earlier than in primary suture, because partial regeneration of axis cylinders in the peripheral segment has already taken place.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis
The areas of epicritic and of protopathic insensibility are illustrated in Fig. 91.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis
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.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis
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