complex regional pain syndrome

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Noun

complex regional pain syndrome (countable and uncountable, plural complex regional pain syndromes)

  2. (biology, medicine) A chronic systemic disease characterized by severe pain, swelling, changes in the skin (e.g., erythema, edema), functional impairment, and sensory and vasomotor disturbance. Often it initially affects an arm or leg before spreading through the body; it is associated with dysregulation of the central nervous system and autonomic nervous system.
    Alternative form: CRPS (initialism)
    Hypernyms: syndrome, disease < condition
    Hyponyms: (type 1) reflex sympathetic dystrophy, RSD; reflex neurovascular dystrophy, RND, algodystrophy; (type 2) causalgia

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