PSY 2502 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis, Posterior Grey Column, Stretch Reflex
2 Apr 2016
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Juvenile arthriis: a form of arthriis that afects children usually before age 16. Juvenile idiopathic arthriis: a type of arthriis that causes joint inlammaion and sifness for more than six weeks in a child aged 16 or younger. Remission: a diminuion of the seriousness or intensity of disease or pain; a temporary recovery. Joints: the place at which two things, or separate parts of one thing, are joined or united, either rigidly or in such a way as to permit moion; juncture. Pain: physical sufering or distress, as due to injury, illness, etc. Nocicepive pain: caused by a disease or damage to body issues. Chronic pain: pain that persists at least three to six months and which abates only temporarily in response to speciic but ime-limited treatment. Nocicepive pain, whether acute or chronic, comes in two forms: visceral and somaic.
