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Painful point

Painful point (punctum dolorosum) – the site which is on a body surface at which concussion of area and when pressing the sensation of pain appears.

Allocate painful points:

  • Boasa – decide most often at a deep palpation at patients on a peptic ulcer of a stomach: paravertebralno at the left, the level X of chest – the I lumbar vertebrae; with a duodenum ulcer – at the same level on the right; and cholelithiasis – in 8,5 cm to the right of an acantha of the XII chest vertebra;
  • Diagnostic – presence of which at any pathological process can be a source of additional information on its localization and character; in the absence of pathological process emergence of sensation of pain on this site requires considerably more strengthened influence;
  • Retormandibular – placed under an ear lobe behind the upper end of a mandible, noted at meningitis;
  • Vascular – located on such site where pressing of an artery to a bone, for example, on a darkness top, at an internal corner of an eye-socket is possible.
 
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