Protopathic Definition

prōtə-păthĭk
adjective
Designating or of certain sensory nerves having limited sensibility, that respond to heat and pain from a general area.
Webster's New World
Relating to first symptoms of a disease, as in the sense of protopathic bias.
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Origin of Protopathic

  • From Medieval Greek prōtopathēs affected first from Greek prōtopathein to feel first prōto- proto- pathos experience, feeling

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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