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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Disordered sense of pain in a part, as when peculiar feelings of local distress follow stimulation.
  • noun Hypalgesia.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Med.) Disordered sensibility to pain, including absence of sensibility to pain, excessive sensibility to pain, and abnormal painful results of stimuli.

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