What's the difference between knifelike and lancinating?
Knifelike
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Lancinating
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(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lanciname
(a.) Piercing; seeming to pierce or stab; as, lancinating pains (i.e., severe, darting pains).
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(1) Tactile stimulation of a coin-sized area in a T-2 dermatome consistently triggered a lancinating pain in the ipsilateral C-8 dermatome in a 38-year-old woman.
(2) Two years prior to admission, she began to complain of itching and lancinating pain at the left lateral aspect of the nose.
(3) The appearance of a delicate whitish strand from a healed biopsy site, which produces lancinating pain, may represent an extruded cutaneous nerve.
(4) The most commonly cited type of pain in the patients with intermittent pain was lancinating, in the case of constant pain a burning sensation.
(5) Lancinating pain, as described in tabes dorsalis, was noted in four patients with chronic sciatica after several months of laminectomy.
(6) Two cases of progressive, occipital lancinating pain and dysesthesias associated with a sensory deficit of the C2 dermatome are presented.
(7) Clinical examination revealed distal sensory inpairment, complaints of burning and lancinating extremity pains, ataxia and a decrease of deep tendon reflexes with total ankle jerk loss.
(8) The characteristic attacks of lancinating pain in throat, ear and tongue can be accompanied by symptoms such as coughing, hoarseness, stridor and fainting.
(9) Both steady, burning pain and lancinating pains were relieved.
(10) A 72 year old woman with attacks of severe lancinating pain in the right frontotemporal region of her face had, on CT scan of the skull base, fibrous dysplasia of the right sphenoid bone, involving the areas traversed by the trigeminal nerve.
(11) Lancinating pain was reported by 40% and throbbing pain by 22.6%.
(12) A case of a clinical syndrome with transient hemiparesis, hemihypaesthesia, lancinating pains of a hand and "thalamic" position of this hand in a 60-year-old women.
(13) Classically, trigeminal neuralgia has been described as a paroxysmal, lancinating, knifelike pain which is limited to the anatomic pathways of the fifth cranial nerve.
(14) Emphasis was laid on the constant, fixed sciatic pain, as contrasted with the irregular, largely nocturnal, episodes of lancinating pain.