A medical instrument used to measure pain sensitivity or the threshold at which a person perceives pain, typically using temperature, pressure, or electrical stimuli.
Combining 'algo-' (cold/pain, from Latin 'algus'), 'esthesi-' (sensation, from Greek 'aesthesis'), and '-meter' (measuring instrument). This specialized medical term developed in the 20th century as researchers studied pain perception scientifically.
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