algesimetry

algesimetry (uncountable)

1. (medicine) The measurement of sensitivity to pain.
   • 1965, James E. Eckenhoff, Science & Practice in Anesthesia:

     A study of this effect of drugs needed the evolution of a reliable and reproducible method of algesimetry, and the pressure method eventually chosen was evaluated in over 1,000 subjects in order to determine the patient and operator variation,

   • 1986, Floyd E. Bloom, Handbook of physiology, page 582:

     In attempts to quantify pain (algesimetry), most experimental observations have been made on acute pain elicited from easily accessible, mostly cutaneous, structures.

   • 2009, Maria Adele Giamberardino, Visceral Pain:

     This has spawned efforts to establish an 'objective' algesimetry, which does not require the report of subjective states but primarily assesses responses to noxious stimuli in the motor, autonomic, endocrine and central nervous systems.

2. (medicine) The study of responses to painful stimuli.
   • 1986, Kay Brune, Agents and Actions Supplements, page 35:

     The dilemma of experimental algesimetry can be characterized as follows. The more reproducible and quantifiable a method of experimental pain induction is, the more inadequate it appears as a model of clinical pain.

   • 2012, Robert F. Schmidt, Gerhard Thews, Human Physiology, page 227:

     Experimental algesimetry is a rapidly expanding field of research, which can be expected to provide fundamental information about the nature of pain.

   • 2013, Paul Karoly, Mark P. Jensen, Arnold P. Goldstein, Multimethod Assessment of Chronic Pain, page 116:

     In Chapter 1 we sought to move the field of algesimetry past the categorical approach toward a dynamic, contextual model consistent with the pioneering work of Melzack and Wall (1965), Sternbach (1968), Fordyce (1976), and others.