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Nociceptive
Nociceptive meaning
Relating to the perception or sensation of pain.
Synonyms of Nociceptive
Example sentences (4)
Nociceptive pain results from physical trauma, such as a sports injury, arthritis, dental procedure, or stubbing a toe.
Nociceptive pain may also be divided into "visceral", "deep somatic" and "superficial somatic" pain.
Nociceptive threshold testing deliberately applies a noxious stimulus to a human or animal subject in order to study pain.
The examples represent respectively the three classes of nociceptive pain - mechanical, thermal and chemical - and neuropathic pain.