Module 4 Vocab

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Norioceptors

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This is a processing of potentially harmful (noxious) stimuli through a normally functioning nervous system. Involves four phases: transduction transmission, perception, and modulation.

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Referred pain

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This pain is felt in an area removed or distant from its point of origin-- (which is supplied by the same spinal segment as the actual site of pain)

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Nociceptive Pain

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pertaining to a neural receptor for painful stimuli.

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Non-nociceptive Pain

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Pain threshold

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This is defined as the lowest intensity of pain that a person can recognize.

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Somatic Pain

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Pain that is superficial, arising from the skin. Typically localized and described as sharp, dull, aching, or throbbing.

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Acute Pain

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This pain is a protective mechanism that alerts the individual to a condition or experience that is immediately harmful to the body and mobilizes the individual to take prompt action to relieve it.

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Chronic Pain

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Pain that has been defined as lasting for more than 3-6 months; however, a more accurate definition is pain lasting well beyond the expected normal healing time following the initial onset of tissue damage or injury.

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Neuropathic Pain

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Pain that is initiated or caused by primary lesion or dysfunction in the nervous system and leads to long-term changes in pain pathway structure and abnormal processing of sensory function.

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Exogenous Pyrogens

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Endotoxins produced by pathogens

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Endogenous Pyrogens

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TNF, IL-1, IL-6 andd a few more that raise the set point bby inducing the hypothalamic synthesis of prostaglandin E2 increasing the body's temperature.

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Hyperthermia

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This is the elevation of the body teemperature without an increase in the hypothalamic set point.

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Hypothermia

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(marked cooling of core temperature) produces deression of the CNS and respiratory system, vasoconstriction,alterations in moocrocirculation and coagulation, and ischemic tissue damage.

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Enuresis

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incontinence of urine, especially nocturnal bed-wetting.

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Somnambulism

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A disorder primarily of childhood and appears to resolve wiithin a few years. (sleepwalking)

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Strabismus

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One eye deviates from the other when the person is looking at an object.

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Nystagmus

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An involuntary unilateral or bilateral rhythmic movement of the eyes.

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Diplopia

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Double vision, which is the primary symptom of strabismus.

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Papilledema

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Edema and inflammation of optic nerve where it enters eyeball. Caused by obstruction of venous return from retina from one of three main sources: increased intracranial pressure, retrobulbar neuritis, or changes in retinal blood vessels.

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Proprioception

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This is the awareness of the position of the body and its parts due to the impulses form the inner ear and from receptors in joints and ligaments.

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Aphasia

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an abnormal neurologic condition in which language function is disordered or absent because of an injury to certain areas of the cerebral cortex

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Dysphasia

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any abnormality in the speaking voice, such as hoarseness. Dysphonia puberum identifies the voice changes that occur in adolescent boys.

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Hypotonia

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a condition of diminished tone or tension that may involve any body structure.

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Hypertonia

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abnormally increased muscle tone or strength. The condition is sometimes associated with genetic disorders, such as trisomy 18, and may be expressed in arm or leg deformities.

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Spasticity

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a form of muscular hypertonicity with increased resistance to stretch.

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Paresis

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motor weakness or partial paralysis related in some cases to local neuritis.

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Paralysis

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Losss of motor function so that muscle group is unable to overcome gravity.

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Hyperkinesis

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represents the second braod category of abnormal movement, specificly tremors (involuntary movements)

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Akinesia

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A decrease in voluntary and associated movments.

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Braydkinesia

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Slowness of voluntary movements

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Hypokinesia

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A Loss of voluntary movment despite preserved consciousness and normal and cliinical presentation of the disorder.