Cut off pain impulses you might be feeling.
The irritated nerve then becomes more excitable and erratically fires pain impulses.
In the spinal cord, the N-type channels transmit pain impulses.
Thus, drugs such as tricyclic antidepressants enhance serotonin release and inhibit pain impulses, thereby closing the 'gate' on the perception of noxious stimuli.
These factors increase the responsiveness of the dorsal horn pain-projection neurons to ensuing stimuli, termed "spinal sensitization," thus amplifying the pain impulse to the brain.
He did not feel the pain of the broken arm because one needs a spinal column to transmit pain impulses.
In addition to this it also plays a key part in the transmission of pain impulses from the peripheral receptors to the central nervous system.
It was as if he had thrown a switch inside himself that shunted the pain impulses elsewhere.
No need to torture the body when you can feed specific pain impulses into the nervous system.
Fighting off the pain impulses, Vergyl reached up to jerk the sharp dart from his bloody cheek, tossed it aside, then made a defiant hand gesture.