pruriceptive
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Etymology[edit]
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Adjective[edit]
pruriceptive (not comparable)
- Relating to, or causing itching
- 2015 September 11, “Chronic Compression of the Dorsal Root Ganglion Enhances Mechanically Evoked Pain Behavior and the Activity of Cutaneous Nociceptors in Mice”, in PLOS ONE[1], :
- Perhaps one reason is that the central pruriceptive or nociceptive effects of SA in cutaneous C-nociceptors were blocked by central inhibitory neurons activated by simultaneous SA known to be generated from the compressed DRG in large diameter mechanosensitive neurons.