Hyperesthesia (HP:0100963)
Increased sensitivity to stimulation, excluding the special senses, which may refer to various modes of cutaneous sensibility including touch and thermal sensation without pain, as well as to pain.
Synonyms: Hyperaesthesia
Comment: Hyperesthesia is a common symptom of neuropathic pain. Neuropathic pain is defined by the International Association for the Study of Pain as pain caused by a lesion or disease of the somatosensory system. The neuropathic pain phenotype contains a spectrum of symptoms that can be roughly categorized into positive and negative symptoms. Hyperesthesia is a positive symptom of neuropathic pain. Positive symptoms are categorized as stimulus-dependent pain, stimulus-independent pain, and paresthesias.
Pubmed References:PMID:33085272
Cross References:MSH:D006941, SNOMEDCT_US:14151009, UMLS:C0020453
No hub genes predicted.
