Definition of Referred pain

1. Noun. Pain that is felt at a place in the body different from the injured or diseased part where the pain would be expected. "Pain in the right shoulder can be referred pain from gallbladder disease"

Generic synonyms: Hurting, Pain

Medical Definition of Referred pain

1. Pain from deep structures perceived as arising from a surface area remote from its actual origin; the area where the pain is appreciated is innervated by the same spinal segment(s) as the deep structure. Synonym: synalgia, telalgia. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Referred Pain

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referred pain (current term)
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Literary usage of Referred pain

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1895)
"Thus, the referred pain of hip disease, already spoken of, ... Head has found that the referred pain and tenderness in disease of the stomach are ascribed ..."

2. Pain: Its Origin, Conduction, Perception and Diagnostic Significance by Richard Joseph Behan (1914)
"AREAS OF referred pain CAUSED BY STOMACH DISORDERS The areas to which the pain of stomach disorders are referred are, first, the epigastrium, ..."

3. Surgical Diagnosis by Daniel Nathan Eisendrath (1909)
"referred pain FROM SPINAL AND THORACIC CONDITIONS. Spondylitis, and tumors of the spinal cord, of its membranes, or of the vertebra;, may cause severe ..."

4. An Outline of psychobiology by Knight Dunlap (1917)
"referred pain. In certain pathological conditions of the visceral organs, the pain which is felt is falsely localized in the skin. This association of skin ..."

5. The Nervous System and Its Constituent Neurones: Designed for the Use of by Lewellys Franklin Barker (1899)
"referred pain in visceral disturbances. (After C. I,. Dana, NY Mcd. Jour, for July 30, 1887, p. 125. ..."

6. An Outline of Psychobiology by Knight Dunlap (1914)
"referred pain. In certain pathological conditions of the visceral organs, the pain which is felt is falsely localized in the skin. This association of skin ..."

7. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1912)
"The referred pain is frequently greater on one side than on the other, due to the greater involvement of one side of the spine in this disease, ..."

8. An Index of differential diagnosis of main symptoms by Herbert French (1918)
"In iritis and glaucoma, referred pain may be intense, and it is usually situated ... The occurrence of referred pain in chronic glaucoma without pain in the ..."

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