causalgia /cau·sal·gia/ (kaw-zal´jah) a burning pain, often with trophic skin changes, due to peripheral nerve injury.
Causalgia
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cau·sal·gia (kô-s l j - , -zl-)n. A persistent, severe burning sensation of the skin, usually following injury to a peripheral nerve. |
Causalgia
A severe burning sensation sometimes accompanied by redness and inflammation of the skin. Causalgia is caused by injury to a nerve outside the spinal cord.
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causalgia
[kôzal′jə]
Etymology: Gk, kausis, burning, algos, pain
a severe sensation of burning pain, often in an extremity, sometimes accompanied by local erythema of the skin.
causalgia (kôzal´j
),n a postextraction localized pain phenomenon usually characterized by a continuous burning sensation.
causalgia
Caulsalgia syndrome Pain medicine A sensation of persistent severe burning pain of either organic–direct or indirect trauma to a sensory nerve, accompanied by trophic changes–or psychologic origin. See Headache, Somatiform disorder.
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