“sympathetic dystrophy”

We have one entry that includes the term sympathetic dystrophy.

reflex sympathetic dystrophy

noun

: a painful disorder that usually follows a localized injury, that is marked by burning pain, swelling, and motor and sensory disturbances especially of an extremity, and that is often considered a type of complex regional pain syndrome in which peripheral nerve injury has not been identified abbreviation RSD


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