Pain and its Management

Question 1

_______is the capital symptom of humans—the great
hallmark of disease—the signal par excellence to the
patient and doctor that all is not well.

Answer 1

Pain

Question 2

Pain is defined as ‘an unpleasant ___________
experience associated with actual or potential tissue
damage or described in terms of such damage

Answer 2

sensory and motional

Question 3

______ due to a stimulus that does not normally

provoke pain

Answer 3

Allodynia Pain

Question 4

_______Pain in an area or region that is

anaesthetic.

Answer 4

Anaesthesia dolorosa

Question 5

______ A syndrome of sustained burning pain,
allodynia and hyperpathia after a traumatic nerve
lesion, often combined with vasomotor and sudomotor
dysfunction and later trophic changes (now known as
complex regional pain syndrome

Answer 5

Causalgia

Question 6

_____ Pain associated with a lesion of the

central nervous system

Answer 6

Central pain

Question 7

________An unpleasant abnormal sensation,
whether spontaneous or evoked (e.g. formication—a
feeling like ants crawling on the skin).

Answer 7

Dysaesthesia

Question 8

_________ Increased sensitivity to stimulation,

excluding the special senses

Answer 8

Hyperaesthesia

Question 9

_________An increased response to a stimulus
that is normally painful (i.e. painful stimulus feels much more painful than expected, such as firm finger
pressure).

Answer 9

Hyperalgesia

Question 10

_______A painful syndrome, characterised by an
increased reaction to a stimulus, especially a repetitive
stimulus, as well as an increased threshold for sensory
detection

Answer 10

Hyperpathia

Question 11

________ Pain that occurs on, or is exacerbated
by, an activity (e.g. coughing, wound dressing,
movement, weight-bearing

Answer 11

Incident pain

Question 12

_________ Pain caused by a lesion or disease of

the somatosensory nervous system

Answer 12

Neuropathic pain

Question 13

________ Pain arising from stimulation of
superficial or deep tissue pain receptors (nociceptors)
from tissue injury or inflammation. From Latin ‘nocere’,
to injure

Answer 13

Nociceptive pain

Question 14

__________ The sensation of the presence of a

missing body part

Answer 14

Phantom pain

Question 15

__________Pain that has the qualities of pain
arising from a physical (somatic) cause but not
attributable to any objectively demonstrable organic
causation (i.e. the expression of psychological distress
as physical symptoms).

Answer 15

Somatoform pain

Question 16

_______A type of nociceptive pain that originates
from activation of nociceptives of internal viscera
(organs).

Answer 16

Visceral pain

Question 17

Nociception
is stimulation of_______ (i.e.
nerve endings sensitive to a noxious stimulus).

Answer 17

peripheral nociceptors

Question 18

__________ is a form of
neurogenic pain in which there is actual nerve cell or axonal damage due to inflammation,
trauma or degenerative disease

Answer 18

Neuropathic pain

Question 19

______ is pain arising in the absence
of any discernible injury and where the
predominant aetiology is psychological or
psychiatric

Answer 19

Psychogenic pain