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This is incorrect. Analgesia is either the inability to feel pain or medication that acts to relieve pain.
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e
Analgesia
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This is incorrect. Neuropathic pain is caused by a disease or a lesion in the somatosensory nervous system.
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c
Neuropathic pain
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This is incorrect. Hyperalgesia occurs when there is increased sensitivity to pain with an increased response to a painful stimulus.
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b
Hyperalgesia
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This is correct. Allodynia is defined as pain caused by a stimulus that does not usually provoke pain.
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a
Allodynia
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This is incorrect. Hypoalgesia defines as a decreased sensitivity to a painful stimulus.
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d
Hypoalgesia
Concept
Chapter
2693
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Pain pathway
Topic
141
Neurology
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A 55-year-old woman presents to the GP with chronic pain. When the GP touches the woman's arm with cotton wool, the patient grimaces in pain.

What best describes this response?
a