Definition of "nociception" []

• The physiological process underlying the sensation of pain. (noun)

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• "This hard-wired injury detection mode for pain is called "nociception", meaning detection of harm, while the nerves which detect the damage are called nociceptor nerves ( "nociceptors" for short)."
• "A cingulotomy eliminates the ability to feel the badness, but does nothing about nociception (the nonconceptual experience of bodily injury)."
• "Philosophers may be as disappointed in the entry on Leibniz as writers and literary scholars will be in the one on Faulkner, but there can't be many people who know about "Beowulf," Elizabeth Cady Stanton and nociception (the perception of pain, dummy)."