protopathy
- noun
- /ˌproʊtəˈpæθi/
- Specialized
:
protopatía
- Doctors tested the patient's protopathy by checking his response to heat and cold.
Examples
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Loss of protopathy may make it difficult to feel pain or temperature changes.
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Damage to certain nerves can affect a person's protopathy.
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The study of protopathy focuses on how we perceive pain.
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Patients with protopathy may have difficulty sensing temperature changes.
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Doctors tested the patient's protopathy by checking his response to heat and cold.
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Loss of protopathy may make it difficult to feel pain or temperature changes.
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Patients with protopathy may have difficulty sensing temperature changes.
Synonyms
The sense of feeling touch, temperature, pain, and body position
A feeling in your body that tells you about touch or where your arms and legs are
The ability to feel touch, body position, and feelings inside the body
The ability to feel touch, pain, temperature, body position, and internal organs
Ability to feel pressure, heat, or pain on the skin
Ability to feel or notice very small physical changes
Antonyms
How Sensitive
- Specialized
1
9.9
- Specialized
137
3.5
- Specialized
19
4.6
Surface Forms
Morphology
protopathy = proto + path + pathy
The form clearly suggests 'first' or 'primitive' feeling or sensation from proto- + -pathy, but the term is technical and not fully guessable for typical learners.
Etymology
Protopathy comes from the parts proto- 'first' and -pathy 'feeling', like the -pathy in sympathy. So protopathy can mean the body's most basic sensations, such as pain, temperature, or touch.