See Also: protopathic(medicine)
protopathic(dictionary)
protopathic sensibility(medicine)

protopathic (iou)



protopathic adjective. M19.
[from PROTO- + Greek pathos suffering, feeling, disease + -IC.]
Medicine. Of a disease: primary. M19.
Physiology. Involving the discrimination of relatively coarse sensory (esp. cutaneous) stimuli, chiefly heat, cold, and pain. E20.