Dictionary

nociception en · NOUN

Etymology

From Latin nocēre (“to hurt”) + English (re)ception. By surface analysis, noci- + -ception.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The physiological process underlying the sensation of pain.
   • The sensation was curious. The bullet passed through her thigh, cleanly, severing the dust-bones and making the second self stumble for a moment before knitting the injury back together. It didn't hurt — she'd have needed an entire quarry's worth of sand for nociception — but she still felt the hole appear, still felt the tiny slug passing through, still felt the quivering impact and the explosive exit. She felt the next three as well, and then she was standing over a cowering woman in a black leather jacket and beanie with a look of complete and total bafflement on her face. 2023 September 22, HarryBlank, “Off Track”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 25 May 2024:

Forms

Deriveds

chemonociception · thermonociception · hypernociception · mechanonociception · pronociception · antinociception

Relateds

nocisensor · nociceptor

Translations (8)

pt nocicepção (physiological process underlying the sensation of pain) · cs nocicepce (physiological process underlying the sensation of pain) · fi kipuaisti (physiological process underlying the sensation of pain) · ca nocicepció (physiological process underlying the sensation of pain) · es nocicepción (physiological process underlying the sensation of pain) · pl nocycepcja (physiological process underlying the sensation of pain) · it nocicezione (physiological process underlying the sensation of pain) · fr nociception (physiological process underlying the sensation of pain)