Somatization
The normal, unconscious process by which psychological distress is expressed as physical symptoms.
Medical
Medical related terms of interest to people suffering from Fibromyalgia and/or Chronic Pain.
Fibromyalgia Medical Terms and Definitions
Anesthesiology
The branch of medicine specializing in the use of drugs or other agents that cause insensibility to pain.
Poisoning, silver
Silver poisoning, medically termed argyria, causes ashen gray discoloration of the skin (and other tissues of the body). Due to chronic use of silver salts.
Silver poisoning
Silver poisoning, medically termed argyria, causes ashen gray discoloration of the skin (and other tissues of the body). Due to chronic use of silver salts.
Cephalothoracic lipodystrophy
A disorder characterized by painless symmetrical diffuse deposits of fat beneath the skin of the neck, upper trunk, arms, and legs.
Anemia, sickle cell
A genetic blood disorder caused by the presence of an abnormal form of hemoglobin.
Disease, sickle cell
A genetic blood disorder caused by the presence of an abnormal form of hemoglobin.
Sickle cell disease
A genetic blood disorder caused by the presence of an abnormal form of hemoglobin.
SAPHO syndrome
Synovitis, acne, pustulosis, hyperostosis, and osteitis syndrome, which involves symptoms including warmth, tenderness, pain, swelling, and stiffness of involved joints (arthritis); fluid-filled blist
In situ, carcinoma
Cancer that has stayed in the place where it began and has not spread to neighboring tissues (for example, squamous cell carcinoma in situ).