Definition of Protopathic

1. Adjective. Relating to a sensory nerve that detects the presence of a stimulus without determining its location. ¹

2. Adjective. Relating to first symptoms of a disease, as in the sense of protopathic bias ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Protopathic

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Protopathic

protonium
protoniums
protonlike
protonmotive
protonolysis
protonophore
protonophores
protonotaries
protonotary
protons
protonym
protooncogene
protooncogenes
protopanaxadiol
protopanaxatriol
protopathic (current term)
protophilic
protophloem
protophloems
protophyte
protophytes
protophytology
protopine
protopines
protoplanet
protoplanetary
protoplanetary disc
protoplanetary discs
protoplanetary nebula
protoplanetary nebulae

Literary usage of Protopathic

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

1. A Text-book of physiology: For Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1915)
"It can be obtained, for example, om the glans penis, which possesses only protopathic sensibility, during the course of regeneration of a severed cutaneous ..."

2. The Newer Physiology in Surgical and General Practice by Arthur J. Rendle Short (1916)
"Loss of protopathic sense over an area usually smaller than and encircled by the former. Sometimes loss of deep sensibility over an area smaller still. ..."

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