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hyperalgesia
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hyperalgesia [¦hī·pər·al′jē·zhə]
(physiology)
Increased or heightened sensitivity to pain stimulation.


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They found that the compounds significantly reduced pain-related activities in isolated microglia, and that these compounds also significantly reversed hyperalgesic behaviour in the experimental rats.
On-cells are inhibited by [micro]-opioids, which, along with other correlations observed between firing rate and various hyperalgesic phenomena, suggests that they are pronociceptive [15-17].
Intercourse may simply be one of any number of pain stimuli to a hyperalgesic genital area.
 
 
 
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