complex regional pain syndrome

English

Noun

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

1. (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.

Synonyms

• algodystrophy

Hyponyms

• reflex sympathetic dystrophy (type 1)
  • RSD (type 1)
• causalgia (type 2)

Translations

chronic systemic disease

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 複雜區域疼痛綜合徵／复杂区域疼痛综合征 (fùzá qūyù téngtòng zōnghézhēng)

• Finnish: monimuotoinen alueellinen kipuoireyhtymä