English Explanatory Dictionary

protopathic

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Relating to a sensory nerve that detects the presence of a stimulus without determining its location.
  2. Relating to first symptoms of a disease, as in the sense of protopathic bias

Word forms

protopathic

Etymology

From proto- + -pathic.

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