tactile anesthesia
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Tactile — Having to do with touch. * * * Relating to touch or to the sense of touch. [L. tactilis, fr. tango, pp. tactus, to touch] * * * tac·tile tak təl, .tīl adj 1) of, relating to, mediated by, or affecting the sense of touch <tactile sensations> … Medical dictionary
Anesthesia — Loss of feeling or awareness. A local anesthetic causes loss of feeling in a part of the body. A general anesthetic puts the person to sleep. * * * 1. Loss of sensation resulting from pharmacologic depression of nerve function or from neurologic… … Medical dictionary
dissociated anesthesia — dissociation anesthesia loss of sensitivity to pain, heat, and cold without loss of other tactile senses; seen in syringomyelia … Medical dictionary
hysterical anesthesia — loss of tactile sensation occurring as a symptom of a conversion disorder, often recognizable by its lack of correspondence with nerve distributions … Medical dictionary
Anaptic — Suffering from an impaired sense of touch, (a state called anaphia) or tactile anesthesia. An anaptic person has anaphia (an, not + Greek haphe, touch = inability to (feel) touch. * * * Relating to anaphia. * * * anap·tic (ə napґtik) marked… … Medical dictionary
Anaphia — The inability to feel touch. From the Greek prefix an, not + Greek haphe, touch = inability to (feel) touch. A person with anaphia is said to be anaptic. * * * Absence of the sense of touch. SYN: anhaphia. [G. an priv. + haphe, touch] * * *… … Medical dictionary
nervous system, human — ▪ anatomy Introduction system that conducts stimuli from sensory receptors to the brain and spinal cord and that conducts impulses back to other parts of the body. As with other higher vertebrates, the human nervous system has two main… … Universalium
Complex regional pain syndrome — Complex regional pain syndrome/Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (CRPS/RSD) Classification and external resources ICD 10 M89.0, G56.4 ICD 9 … Wikipedia
Sedation — Not to be confused with sedition. Sedation is the reduction of irritability or agitation by administration of sedative drugs, generally to facilitate a medical procedure or diagnostic procedure. Drugs which can be used for sedation include… … Wikipedia
Pain — This article is about physical pain. For pain in the broader sense, see Suffering. For other uses, see Pain (disambiguation). Pain A sports player in pain. ICD 10 R52 … Wikipedia
