Across
- 6. A self-report instrument for assessing people’s pain
- 12. Pain that stems from benign causes and involves repeated and intense episodes of pain separated by periods without pain.
- 15. Opiate like substances the body produces naturally that reduce the sensation of pain.
- 16. Discomfort that is typically present all of the time, with varying
- 19. An explanation of pain perception that proposes that a neural gate in the spinal cord can modulate incoming pain signals.
- 20. Sensory and emotional discomfort, usually related to actual or threatened tissue damage.
Down
- 1. Short term pain that results from tissue damage or other trauma
- 2. of intensity
- 3. Structure in the forebrain that acts as a relay centre for incoming sensory information and outgoing motor information
- 4. A phenomenon whereby stimulation to the brainstem causes insensitivity to pain.
- 5. The experience of discomfort as coming from an area of the body other than where the injury exists.
- 7. Idea that pain results from a combination of impulses from nerve fibres
- 8. Sensory receptors in the skin and organs that are capable to responding to various types of tissue damage
- 9. Neurons that connect sensory neurons to motor neurons; association neurons
- 10. A region of the midbrain that plays a major role in the perception of and reaction to pain stimuli.
- 11. Continuous discomfort, associated with a malignant condition. It becomes increasingly intense as the underlying condition worsens
- 13. Purely psychological pain without a physiological basis
- 14. Characteristic ways people behave when they are in pain.
- 17. Pain that endures beyond the time of normal healing
- 18. Naturally occurring neurochemical whose effects resemble those of the opiates
