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slow pain

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slow pain,
an unpleasant sensory experience that travels a multisynaptic route to the brain via slow-conducting, non-myelinated nerve fibers.


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Slow pain is however transmitted by the slower C fibers to lamina II and III or dorsal horns also known as substantia gelatinosa and neurons take off and join fast pain pathways and move upwards along the anterolateral pathway.
Comment posted by Neil YAKUBU might as well be given Roary's outfit, because he's no more than a slow pain up front.
We sneak bright nips of gin from Daddy Rick's liquor cabinet, jump dunes of dirty laundry, catch rats in traps in the basement, watch them screw into the slow pain of death.
 
 
 
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