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Pain Management for Burn Injuries

Pain Management for Burn Injuries - Glossary

Glossary

Relaxation: It’s a state of mind and body free from any anxiety or skeletal or muscular pressure.

Contractures: It’s a condition of shortening of muscular tendons leading to deformity of joints.

Hyperemia: An excess of blood in the vessels supplying to an organ.

Perfusion: It is the process of delivery of oxygenated blood to a capillary bed in tissue.

Homeostasis: Maintenance of stable equilibrium within the body with all physiological processes in sync is called homeostasis.

C fibers: C fibers are nerve fibers that react to thermal, or mechanical stimuli.

Nocioceptor:nociceptor is a sensory nerve cell sends signals to the spinal cord and brain and responds to a particular stimuli in form of pain.

Scalds: They result from partial thickness burns, when dermal layer of skin is lost.

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