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Pain and Palliative Care Herndon
Exam 1 First Lecture
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Agriculture
6th Grade
09/19/2010

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The continued use of a substance/drug despite known detrimental or harmful effects is best defined as:
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Addiction
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The presentation of aberrant drug taking behaviors in a patient with pain which ceases upon increasing the use of the drug is defined as:
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Pseudo-addiction
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The gradual decrease in the analgesic effectiveness of a drug is defined as:
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Tolerance
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Upon the repetitive firing and depolarization of primary afferent 1st order neurons, the failure of the cells to completely repolarize for physiological reasons is defined as:
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Windup
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Central Sensitization
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The process is which the nervous system changes inappropriately due to ongoing, long-term noxious stimulus
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As a result of direct damage or demyelination of a nerve, this results:
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neuropathy
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Deafferentiation
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Refers to afferent nerves being "cut off" from communication further up the nervous system
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Hyperalgesia
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A Heightened response to a normally painful stimuli
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Allodynia
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Perceiving a normally non-noxious, or painful, stimuli as a noxious or painfaul stimuli

Ex: pts with diabetic neuropathy have pain with putting on a dress, socks, shoes, bed sheets, etc.

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