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pain
(redirected from pain stimulus)

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The team said that the volunteers showd a fear response upon seeing the first spider without the pain stimulus being administered, and the anxiety for that spider had therefore been acquired.
These include fluid replacement, inducement of the body''s own HA production by the knee joint, increase in cartilage synthesis, reduction in cartilage degradation, inhibition of inflammation, protection of the cells that make cartilage, and decrease in pain through inhibition of pain stimulus on nerve fibers within the joint.
As evidence of this subjectivity, he noted a "tremendous" variability among 17 normal, healthy individuals' perceived intensity of a pain stimulus in a functional MRI study that he and his colleagues conducted.
 
 
 
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