Pain

Pain is

• a feeling or showing pleasure or contentment.

• a strongly unpleasant bodily sensation caused by illness or injury.

• a pleasant sensory and emotional experience.

• an unavoidable situation related to bodily sensation.

Pain is classified as follow EXCEPT:

• nociceptive pain.

• physiological pain.

• inflammatory pain

• neuropathic pain.

Nociceptors are the following EXCEPT:

• are activated through various noxious stimuli.

• are responsible for sending signals to the spinal cord and brain when there is potential damage to the body.

• superficial pain receptors.

• exist at the free nerve endings of the primary afferent neuron.

Which phase is INCORRECT of the nociceptive pain pathway?

• Transmission

• Transduction

• Presumption

• Modulation

Ascending tracts carry information related with touch, ____________, pain and proprioception.

Pain due to a stimulus that does not usually provoke pain refers to

• allodynia.

• hyperalgesia.

What kind of pain stimuli is knife cut?

• Mechanical

• Thermal

• Chemical

• Visceral

What kind of pain stimuli is ice?

• Mechanical

• Thermal

• Chemical

• Visceral

What kind of pain stimuli is heart attack?

• Mechanical

• Thermal

• Chemical

• Visceral

The following are pain mediators EXCEPT:

• glucocorticoids

• substance P

• prostaglandins

• insulin