nociceptive
adjUK /ˌnəʊ.sɪˈsɛp.tɪv/ · US /ˌnoʊ.səˈsɛp.tɪv/
Etymology Coined by English neurophysiologist Charles Sherrington in 1906, from Latin noceō (“to do harm, to inflict injury”) + receptive.
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Medicine, Physiology, Sciences Relating to the perception or sensation of pain.
- Derived terms
- antinociceptive, chemonociceptive, hypernociceptive, mechanonociceptive, nociceptively, nociceptive pain, nociceptive reflex, nociplastic, nonnociceptive, pronociceptive, thermonociceptive
- Related terms
- nociceptor