| 영문 | spontaneous pain | 한글 | 자발통 |
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| 설명 | 통증을 일으키는 양상은 다양하고 운동-체위의 변환-압박-한랭 또는 가온 등에 의해서 발생-증강되는데 이와 같은 자극을 가함이 없이 평상시에도 자연히 생기는 통증을 말한다. |
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| 영문 | pain | 한글 | 통증 |
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| 설명 | 국한성인 불쾌 또는 고통스러운 감각. 생체에 침해적인 자극이 가해졌을 때 생기는 통각은 상황, 과거의 경험, 심리적인 요인에 의해 변화한다. 특징으로서 순응이 어려울 정도로 다양한 생체반응을 일으킨다. 통각은 몸통증과 내장통증으로 분류되며, 몸통증은 다시 얕은 통증과 깊은 통증으로 나뉜다. 얕은 통증은 피부나 점막의 통각으로 통점으로서 존재하며, 깊은 통증은 근육, 뼈막, 관절통이다. 통증수용기는 자유신경 종말이다. 통증 정보를 전달하는 신경섬유는 Aδ와 C인데 Aδ섬유는 빠른 통증(일차통증)을 전달하고, C섬유는 느린 통증(이차통증)을 전달한다. 통각에는 상위중추에서 하행섬유에 가하는 하행억제가 존재하여, 통각이 상위중추로 전달되는 것을 조절하고 있다. |
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| DRQ | discomfort relief quotient |
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| RMUI | relief medication unit index |
| SRD | service-related disability; Society for the Relief of Distress; Society for the Right to Die; sodium... |
| UNDRO | United Nations Disaster Relief Organization |
| WMR | work metabolic rate; World Medical Relief |
| breakthrough pain | <oncology, symptom> Intermittent exacerbations of pain that can occur spontaneously or in relation to specific activity. (16 Dec 1997) |
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| carbon dioxide-free water | Purified water that has been boiled vigorously for 5 minutes or more. (05 Mar 2000) |
| radical, free | In biochemistry, it is a group of atoms bonded together into an entity that is extremely reactive and shortlived. (a free radical is not a political extremist on parole.) (12 Dec 1998) |
| pain | <symptom> An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage. (16 Dec 1997) |
| pain, ankle | The ankle is a hinged joint. The severity of ankle sprains ranges from mild (which can resolve within 24 hours) to severe (which can require surgical repair). Tendinitis of the ankle can be caused by trauma or inflammatory arthritis. (12 Dec 1998) |
| pain, back | Symptoms in the low back can relate to the bony lumbar spine, discs between the vertebrae, ligaments around the spine and discs, spinal cord and nerves, muscles of the low back, internal organs of the pelvis and abdomen, and the skin covering the lumbar area. (12 Dec 1998) |
| pain, chest | Chest pain has many cause. One celebrated cause is angina which results from inadequate oxygen supply to the heart muscle due to coronary artery disease or spasm of the coronary arteries. Treatment of angina includes rest, medication, angioplasty, and/or coronary artery bypass surgery. (12 Dec 1998) |
| pain clinics | Facilities providing diagnostic, therapeutic, and palliative services for patients with severe chronic pain. These may be free-standing clinics or hospital-based and serve ambulatory or inpatient populations. The approach is usually multidisciplinary. These clinics are often referred to as "acute pain services". (12 Dec 1998) |
| pain, elbow | Tendinitis can affect the inner or outer elbow. Treatment includes ice, rest, and medication for inflammation. Bacteria can infect the skin of a scraped (abraded) elbow and cause pain. (12 Dec 1998) |
| pain insensitivity, congenital | Absence of sensibility to pain or inability to feel pain. The condition is present at birth. (12 Dec 1998) |
| pain, intractable | Pain which is difficult to control. (12 Dec 1998) |
| pain, knee | Causes of knee pain include injury, degeneration, arthritis, infrequently infection and rarely bone tumours. (12 Dec 1998) |
| pain measurement | Scales, questionnaires, tests, and other methods used to assess pain severity and duration in patients or experimental animals to aid in diagnosis, therapy, and physiological studies. (12 Dec 1998) |
| pain-pleasure principle | A psychoanalytic concept that, in a human's psychic functioning, he/she tends to seek pleasure and avoid pain; a term borrowed by experimental psychology to denote the same tendency of an animal in a learning situation. Synonym: pleasure principle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pain, postoperative | Pain during the period after surgery. (12 Dec 1998) |