Trigger Zone

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trigger zone

A specific area that, when stimulated by touch, pain, or pressure, excites an attack of neurologic pain.

Trigger Zone

A circumscribed region near a nerve, often in the head & neck which, when stimulated, even with light touch, may elicit marked neuralgia accompanied by lightning pain
Examples Lips and buccal cavity—evoking trigeminal neuralgia and tic douloureux—tonsillar or posterior pharynx—glossopharyngeal neuralgia—and muscles involved in myofascial pain syndrome

trigger zone

the initial segment of a neuron; the first segment of the axon after it leaves the cell body.

trigger zone

Neurology A circumscribed region near a nerve, often in the head & neck which, when stimulated, even with light touch, may elicit marked neuralgia accompanied by lightning pain Examples Lips and buccal cavity–evoking trigeminal neuralgia and tic douloureux, tonsillar or posterior pharynx–glossopharyngeal neuralgia and muscles involved in myofascial pain syndrome

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