Anesthesia: Neurology of Pain Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• ileus : common complication in horses that can be caused by fasting.
• pathognomonic : specifically characteristic or indicative of a particular disease or condition.
• anesthesia : a sate of unconscious produced by a process of controlled, reversible intoxication of the cns, whereby the patient neither perceives nor recalls noxious (or other) stimuli.
• ruminants : animals that need to be fasted for 24-48 hours before induction.
• hr : this parameter is not predictable of anesthetic depth.
• nociception : neural encoding of impeding or actual tissue damage via ascending pathways.
• pain : subjective experience of actual or impeding harm.
• sensorycortex : where sensory information is relayed.
• voltage-gated : _ - _ na+ channels in the cell membrane are sensitive to stimuli.
• hyperalgesia : increased response to something that is already painful.
• allodynia : pain experienced in response to a normally non-noxious stimulus.
• adaptive : inflammatory pain is an _ response to tissue damage.
• pag : pain modulating region of the midbrain.