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Definition of Protopathic
1. Adjective. Relating to a sensory nerve that detects the presence of a stimulus without determining its location. ¹
2. Adjective. Relating to first symptoms of a disease, as in the sense of protopathic bias ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Protopathic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Protopathic
Literary usage of Protopathic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of physiology: For Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1915)
"It can be obtained, for example, om the glans penis, which possesses only
protopathic sensibility, during the course of regeneration of a severed cutaneous ..."
2. The Newer Physiology in Surgical and General Practice by Arthur J. Rendle Short (1916)
"Loss of protopathic sense over an area usually smaller than and encircled by the
former. Sometimes loss of deep sensibility over an area smaller still. ..."
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