BPS 1101 Study Guide - Threshold Of Pain, Prostaglandin, Gangrene

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Biopharmaceutical sciences
• Course: BPS 1101
• Professor: All

Document Summary

There was maybe a 30% chance of surviving and the hole would be harmful and not beneficial: there are modern practitioners of trepanation hole in the head movement by cutting a hole in your head you will experience health benefits, neurons in brain are not capable of feeling pain brain surgery can be preformed with local anesthetic, pain is in the thin tissue surrounding the skull. Muscular headache: muscle band around skull contracts and squishes the tissue, primarily caused by stress, you will have to relax the muscles in order to cure the headache, you can treat them with acetaminophen, (increases pain threshold) asa, Toxic headaches: you ingest a toxin, you consume a poisonous substance which gives an undesired effect, poison generates a headache, pain involves the circulation of blood; pain is caused by vasodilation and when the blood vessels in the tissue around the skull dilate they swell and press the tissue against the skull and cause pain.