What's the difference between cephalalgia and pain?

Cephalalgia


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Cephalalgy

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Together with the few reports in the literature our cases outline a benign form of complicated coital cephalalgia, possibly resulting from ischaemic disturbances triggered by haemodynamic changes occurring in orgasm.
  • (2) Oral Mydocalm intermittent therapy was used in 113 patients suffering from myogenous cephalalgia.
  • (3) Methods of therapy include the use of vasoactive substances especially for vasomotor cephalalgia, immobilisation and local anesthesia in neuralgias, and psychopharmocological as well as psychotherapeutic aid in psychogenic complaints.
  • (4) Epidural blood patch (EBP) was performed for the treatment of severe postlumbar puncture cephalalgia in 118 young patients.
  • (5) The unilateral retro-orbital cephalalgia was constant.
  • (6) Cephalalgia (1st century AD), nostalgia (1678), neuralgia (18th century), causalgia (1872) were terms followed in the 1950's by Bonica's 'algology... a disease state of its own', addressed by ever-growing numbers of pain clinics, strongly foreshadowed by Leriche's douleur maladie in the 1930's.
  • (7) In a 1983 publication, the administration of a dopaminergic agonist has been proposed as a test able to distinguish migraine from other cephalalgia.
  • (8) While receiving the latter treatment, the patient developed persistent cephalalgia and vomiting, without signs of neurological focality.
  • (9) The origin of these may be extracranial (neuralgias in scar tissue and hematomas, neuralgiform headache as a result of injury to the cervical spine) as well as diffuse in the sense of vasomotr cephalalgia which are due to central regulation disorders of the circulation caused by psychogenic mechanisms and compensatory neurosis.
  • (10) Cephalalgias are divided into four syndromes and the most severe of these, migraine, presents several therapeutic applications.
  • (11) The dura mater has attracted considerable attention as an exquisitely sensitive tissue implicated as playing a role in various cephalalgias including vascular headache.
  • (12) A 23 year-old man presented with a rapidly evolving syndrome of cephalalgia , vomiting, mutism, disorders of gait, somnolence and dystonic movements.
  • (13) We have been interested in the prevalence of cephalalgias in a population of university students, as well as its intensity, frequency and duration parameters.
  • (14) These included cephalalgia, syncope, binocular photopsia phenomena with blurred vision, and an "electric-like" paroxysmal tingling of the hands.
  • (15) The practical interest to know this association is that somnambulism may be a real clinical marker of migrainous background that should be searched for in every patient presenting with chronic cephalalgia.
  • (16) The etiopathogenesis of headache (cephalalgia) is multifactorial and has not been definitely clarified yet.
  • (17) In AIDS patients a high suspicion of opportunistic infection of the CNS is needed as exemplified by two of the four patients who only presented cephalalgia.
  • (18) Exertional migraine, benign orgasmic cephalalgia, chronic paroxysmal hemicrania, cough headache, and "ice-pick" headache are treated with indomethacin.
  • (19) The most common clinical symptoms are high fever, cough, cephalalgia and myalgias.
  • (20) EBP was found to be a safe, effective method for treating severe postlumbar puncture cephalalgia, provided a proper diagnosis is made and there is no contraindication.

Pain


Definition:

  • (n.) Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.
  • (n.) Any uneasy sensation in animal bodies, from slight uneasiness to extreme distress or torture, proceeding from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; bodily distress; bodily suffering; an ache; a smart.
  • (n.) Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth.
  • (n.) Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; grief; solicitude; anguish.
  • (n.) See Pains, labor, effort.
  • (n.) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
  • (n.) To put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture; as, his dinner or his wound pained him; his stomach pained him.
  • (n.) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve; as a child's faults pain his parents.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Experience of pain is modified by intern and extern influences, and it can appear very multiformly in the chronicity.
  • (2) All subjects completed the Coping Strategies Questionnaire, which measures the use and perceived effectiveness of a variety of cognitive and behavioral coping strategies in controlling and decreasing pain.
  • (3) Although solely nociresponsive neurons are clearly likely to fill a role in the processing and signalling of pain in the conscious central nervous system, the way in which such useful specificity could be conveyed by multireceptive neurons is difficult to appreciate.
  • (4) Sixteen patients were operated on for lumbar pain and pain radiating into the sciatic nerve distribution.
  • (5) Needle acupuncture did, however, increase the pain threshold compared with the initial value (alpha = 0.1%).
  • (6) Pain is not reported in the removal area, the clinical examinations show identical findings on both patellar tendons, X-ray and ultrasound evaluations do not demonstrate any change in patellar position.
  • (7) For assessment of clinical status, investigators must rely on the use of standardized instruments for patient self-reporting of fatigue, mood disturbance, functional status, sleep disorder, global well-being, and pain.
  • (8) However, as the plan unravels, Professor Marcus's team turn on one another, with painfully (if painfully funny) results.
  • (9) During the chronic phase, pain was assessed using visual analogue scales at 8 AM and 4 PM daily.
  • (10) Symptoms, particularly colicky abdominal pain, improved during the period of chelation therapy.
  • (11) Cook, who has postbox-red hair and a painful-looking piercing in his lower lip, was now on stage in discussion with four fellow YouTubers, all in their early 20s.
  • (12) The main clinical symptom was pain, usually sciatica, while neurological symptoms were less common than they are in adults.
  • (13) The study revealed that hypophysectomy and ventricular injection of AVP dose dependently raised pain threshold and these effects were inhibited by naloxone.
  • (14) Anxious mood and other symptoms of anxiety were commonly seen in patients with chronic low back pain.
  • (15) During these delays, medical staff attempt to manage these often complex and painful conditions with ad hoc and temporizing measures,” write the doctors.
  • (16) In this study, a potassium nitrate-polycarboxylate cement was used as a liner and was found clinically to tend to preserve pulpal vitality and significantly eliminate or decrease postoperative pain.
  • (17) The successful treatment of the painful neuroma remains an elusive surgical goal.
  • (18) Univariate and multivariate analyses indicated previous LBP or back pain in another location of the spine were strongly associated with LBP during the study year.
  • (19) Our previous study demonstrated that acupuncture increased pain threshold of the body, especially in the inflammatory area.
  • (20) The triad of epigastric pain unrelieved by antacids, bilious vomiting, and weight loss, particularly after a gastric operation should make one suspect this syndrome.

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