prepain
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
prepain (uncountable)
- A physical sensation that is not pain but would become pain if it were more intense.
- 1984, Burkhart Bromm, Pain Measurement in Man: Neurophysiological Correlates of Pain, page 443:
- Mostly the subjects experienced either no sensation at all, or pain; only a very small prepain range was found (a just noticeable tactile sensation, as described in Chapter 27).
- 2016, Mary Pullig Schatz, Back Care Basics:
- You can learn what to do at the first signals of prepain and thereby avoid the true disability that accompany a fullblown attack.
- 2002, Kenneth M. Hargreaves, Harold E. Goodis, Seltzer and Bender's Dental Pulp, page 168:
- As described above, pain and prepain are the only sensations that can be evoked by intradental nerve stimulation in human subjects.
- 2012, Winston C.V. Parris, Contemporary Issues in Chronic Pain Management, page 138:
- Even in trained normal subjects, the pain threshold, where prepain becomes just noticeably painful, is a composite of nuances and is difficult to judge.
Adjective[edit]
prepain (comparative more prepain, superlative most prepain)
- Before the onset of pain.
- 1983, Dennis C. Turk, Donald Meichenbaum, Myles Genest, Pain and Behavioral Medicine: A Cognitive-Behavioral Perspective, page 202:
- Assessment of prepain functioning often provides insights into behavioral, cognitive, and affective responses subsequent to pain onset.
- 1986, Sharon L. Roberts, Behavioral Concepts and the Critically Ill Patient, page 15:
- After a diagnosis of pain has been made, the critical care nurse organizes nursing interventions around three categories: prepain experience, actual pain experience, and postpain experience.
- 1996, Clare Philips, Stanley Rachman, The Psychological Management of Chronic Pain: A Treatment Manual, page 177:
- Having described these two patterns to the patients, it is important to point out that with a contiuation of these patterns [see Figure 14.1(i) and (ii)] neither group will return to their prepain activity levels .