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  2. Counterpoint - Wikipedia

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    Inspired by Spinoza, [6] Taneyev developed a theory which covers and generalizes a wide range of advanced contrapuntal phenomena, including what is known to the english-speaking theorists as invertible counterpoint (although he describes them mainly using his own, custom-built terminology), by means of linking them to simple algebraic procedures.

  3. List of chronic pain syndromes - Wikipedia

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    [3] [4] Chronic pain is considered a syndrome because of the associated symptoms that develop in those experiencing this disorder. [5] Chronic pain affects approximately 20% of people worldwide and accounts for 15–20% of visits to a physician. [3] Pain can be categorized according to its location, cause, or the anatomical system which it affects.

  4. Complex regional pain syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS type 1 and type 2), sometimes referred to by the hyponyms reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) or reflex neurovascular dystrophy (RND), is a rare and severe form of neuroinflammatory and dysautonomic disorder causing chronic pain, neurovascular, and neuropathic symptoms.

  5. Nociplastic pain - Wikipedia

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    Nociplastic pain is a longterm complex pain, one of three mechanisms of pain, defined by the International Association for the Study of Pain as "pain that arises from altered nociception despite no clear evidence of actual or threatened tissue damage causing the activation of peripheral nociceptors or evidence for disease or lesion of the somatosensory system causing the pain". [2]

  6. Congenital insensitivity to pain - Wikipedia

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    Congenital insensitivity to pain (CIP), also known as congenital analgesia, is one or more extraordinarily rare conditions in which a person cannot feel (and has never felt) physical pain. [1] The conditions described here are separate from the HSAN group of disorders, which have more specific signs and cause.

  7. Myofascial pain syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Myofascial pain syndrome (MPS) is commonly confused with fibromyalgia (FM) as their presentation is similar. However, fibromyalgia is typically associated with fatigue, depression and cognitive dysfunction. The anatomic distribution and characteristic of the pain also differ.

  8. Myofascial trigger point - Wikipedia

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    Myofascial pain syndrome is a focal hyperirritability in muscle that can strongly modulate central nervous system functions. Scholars distinguish this from fibromyalgia, which is characterized by widespread pain and tenderness and is described as a central augmentation of nociception giving rise to deep tissue tenderness that includes muscles ...

  9. List of eponymous medical signs - Wikipedia

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    Relief of pain at tumor site upon vascular occlusion of limb, with acute return of pain on reperfusion Hippocratic face: Hippocrates: palliative care: impending death: Hippocratic fingers: Hippocrates: pulmonary medicine: chronic hypoxia: clubbing of distal phalanges Hirschberg test: Julius Hirschberg: ophthalmology: strabismus