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20 Cards in this Set
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Abarognosis |
inability to recognize weight |
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Allesthesia |
sensation experienced at a site remote from point of stimulation |
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Allodynia |
pain produced by a non-noxious stimulus |
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Analgesia |
complete loss of pain sensitivity |
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Astereognosis |
inability to recognize the form and shape of objects by touch (tactile agnosia) |
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Atopognosia |
inability to localize a sensation |
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Causalgia |
painful, burning sensations, usually along the distribution of a nerve |
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Dysesthesia |
touch sensation experienced as pain |
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Hypalgesia |
decreased sensitivity to pain |
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Hyperalgesia |
increased sensitivity to pain |
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Hyperesthesia |
increased sensitivity to sensory stimuli |
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Hypesthesia |
decreased sensitivity to sensory stimuli |
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Pallanesthesia |
loss or absence of sensibility to vibration |
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Paresthesia |
abnormal sensation such as numbness, prickling, or tingling, without apparent cause |
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Thalamic syndrome |
vascular lesion of the thalamus resulting in sensory disturbances and partial or complete paralysis of one side of the body, associated with severe boring-type pain; sensory stimuli may produce an exaggerated, prolonged or painful response |
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Thermanalgesia |
inability to perceive heat |
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Thermanesthesia |
inability to perceive sensations of heat and cold |
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Thermhyperesthesia |
increased sensitivity to temperature |
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Thermhypesthesia |
decreased temperature sensibility |
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Thigmanesthesia |
loss of light touch sensibility |
