Definition of hyperalgesia in English:
hyperalgesia
nounˌhʌɪpəralˈdʒiːzɪəˌhīpəralˈjēzēə
mass nounMedicine Abnormally heightened sensitivity to pain.
Example sentencesExamples
- Intravenous opiates or ketamine administered before incision can lead to decreases in wound hyperalgesia days after the surgery.
- These mediators and the related tissue injury prolong pain and hyperalgesia.
- They also act as mediators of inflammatory hyperalgesia.
- The mechanism for the pain may involve the development of an area of hyperalgesia as a result of myofascial stretch injury.
- Neurogenic inflammation is a process by which sensory nerves may secrete inflammatory mediators, resulting in hyperalgesia and inflammation.
Derivatives
adjective
Medicine Of particular interest to us recently have been the mechanisms by which these direct hyperalgesic mediators affect primary afferents to lower threshold.
Example sentencesExamples
- One hypothesis is that both the hyperalgesic and analgesic actions of isoflurane require noradrenergic pain pathways.
- When H - 8, a protein kinase G inhibitor, was injected 90 minutes after PGE2, however, the hyperalgesic duration was reduced.