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protopathic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
pro-to-path-ic
IPA
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Relating to a sensory nerve that detects the presence of a stimulus without determining its location.

adj

Relating to first symptoms of a disease, as in the sense of protopathic bias

Etymology

From proto- + -pathic.

Word Breakdown

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in Medicine.

Questions

What does protopathic mean?
Relating to a sensory nerve that detects the presence of a stimulus without determining its location.
Where does protopathic come from?
From proto- + -pathic.

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