Pain Insensitivity, Congenital
"Pain Insensitivity, Congenital" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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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)
| Descriptor ID |
D000699
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C10.668.829.700 C16.320.775
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| Concept/Terms |
Pain Insensitivity, Congenital- Pain Insensitivity, Congenital
- Congenital Insensitivity To Pain
- Congenital Pain Indifference
- Congenital Pain Insensitivity
- Insensitivity To Pain, Congenital
- Congenital Analgesia
- Pain Indifference, Congenital
- Congenital Pain Indifferences
- Analgesia, Congenital
- Channelopathy-Associated Insensitivity To Pain
- Congenital Indifference to Pain
- Insensitivity, Congenital Pain
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Congenital trigeminal neuropathy in oculoauriculovertebral dysplasia-hemifacial microsomia (Goldenhar-Gorlin syndrome). J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 1975 Oct; 38(10):1033-5.