| Anterolateral
System |
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| •Mediates
protective sensations |
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| -Pain |
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| -Temperature (cold & warmth) |
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| -Itch |
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| •Not as
definitively established as |
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| is the DC-ML
system for touch |
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| Why? |
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| •Pain w/o tissue trauma |
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| •Trauma w/o pain |
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| •Cultural; pathological |
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