nociceptive
IPA: nˈoʊsisˈɛptɪv
adjective
- (physiology) Relating to the perception or sensation of pain.
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Examples of "nociceptive" in Sentences
- Morphine inhibits the nociceptive neural pathways at multiple sites.
- Adenosine A1 receptors mediate local anti-nociceptive effects of acupuncture
- GRT 6005 has completed proof-of-concept studies in nociceptive and neuropathic pain.
- One, sometimes called nociceptive pain, results from damage to tissues, as from arthritis or a burn.
- (Nociceptors are peripheral nerve endings specialized to respond, normally, only to potentially damaging stimuli, i.e., to nociceptive stimuli).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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