hyperalgesia
- noun
- /ˌhaɪpərælˈdʒiːziə/
- Specialized
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hiperalgesia
- For several anxious patients or those with hyperalgesia and allodynia, an anesthesiologist administered intravenous sedation.
Examples
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Numerous patients were seen with conditions (especially reflex sympathetic dystrophy) that caused hyperalgesia of the skin.
Academic text (1996) -
After suffering an injury, he experienced hyperalgesia, reacting intensely to even slight touches.
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Patients undergoing treatment sometimes report hyperalgesia, leading to heightened pain responses during therapy.
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The doctor explained that hyperalgesia could make normal stimuli feel painfully intense for certain patients.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
hyperalgesia = algesia (opaque) = hyper + alges + ia
The prefix hyper- is clear, but the base algesia is specialized medical vocabulary and is unlikely to be known by an average B1 learner.
Etymology
Hyperalgesia comes from the parts hyper- and -algesia, where hyper- means 'too much', as in hyperactive, and -algesia means 'pain'. So hyperalgesia means 'too much pain', which is why it describes a stronger than normal feeling of pain.