Pain Insensitivity, Congenital
"Pain Insensitivity, Congenital" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A syndrome characterized by indifference to PAIN despite the ability to distinguish noxious from nonnoxious stimuli. Absent corneal reflexes and INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY may be associated. Familial forms with autosomal recessive and autosomal dominant patterns of inheritance have been described. (Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p1343)
| Descriptor ID |
D000699
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C10.668.829.700 C16.320.775
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| Concept/Terms |
Pain Insensitivity, Congenital- Pain Insensitivity, Congenital
- Insensitivity, Congenital Pain
- Congenital Pain Insensitivity
- Congenital Analgesia
- Congenital Indifference to Pain
- Pain Indifference, Congenital
- Congenital Pain Indifference
- Congenital Pain Indifferences
- Analgesia, Congenital
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