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somatic
(redirected from somatic pain)

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somatic
1. of or relating to the soma
2. of or relating to an animal body or body wall as distinct from the viscera, limbs, and head
3. of or relating to the human body as distinct from the mind


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The author makes distinctions between various types of pain, including distinctions between somatic pain transmitted by healthy nervous tissue and neuropathic pain that originates in abnormal (eg, demyelinated) nervous tissue.
During the tours some of the women seemed curious and attentive, while others withdrew and complained of somatic pain.
Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS), the initial clinical target for milnacipran, is a condition characterized by chronic somatic pain.
 
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