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Nervous System Diseases > Neuromuscular Diseases > Peripheral Nervous System Diseases > Pain Insensitivity, Congenital
Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities > Genetic Diseases, Inborn > Pain Insensitivity, Congenital

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Pain Insensitivity, Congenital  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Analgesia, Congenital
  • Channelopathy-Associated Insensitivity To Pain
  • Congenital Analgesia
  • Congenital Indifference to Pain
  • Congenital Insensitivity To Pain
  • Congenital Pain Indifference
  • Congenital Pain Indifferences
  • Congenital Pain Insensitivity
  • Insensitivity, Congenital Pain
  • Insensitivity To Pain, Congenital
  • Pain Indifference, Congenital

Note

  • congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis = HSAN TYPE IV see NEUROPATHIES, HEREDITARY SENSORY AND AUTONOMIC

Scope note

  • A syndrome characterized by indifference to PAIN despite the ability to distinguish noxious from non-noxious stimuli. Absent corneal reflexes and INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY may be associated. Familial forms with autosomal recessive and autosomal dominant patterns of inheritance have been described. (Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p1343)

History note

  • 96; was ANALGESIA, CONGENITAL 1964-95 (Prov 1964-72); PAIN INSENSITIVITY, CONGENITAL was see ANALGESIA, CONGENITAL 1973-95

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D000699

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