adjective
- relating to or being sensory reception that is immediate and crude, involving basic sensations like pain, temperature, and pressure
Usage: medical; neurological
Examples
- Protopathic sensations include the basic awareness of hot and cold.
- The patient retained protopathic sensitivity but lost fine touch discrimination.
- Protopathic nerve fibers carry crude sensory information to the brain.
- After the injury, only protopathic sensations remained intact.
- The neurologist tested both protopathic and epicritic sensory functions.
- Protopathic sensitivity develops earlier than more refined sensory abilities.