Further, judges who had experience with IP were assisted by technical assistants called Chosa-kan, who were senior examiners dispatched by the JPO and well-experienced patent attorneys temporarily appointed by the Supreme Court of Japan.
Definition. Arthralgia means pain in a joint. Polyarthralgia means pain in several joints (two or more for the purposes of this discussion). Arthritis is a diagnosis and is not a symptom; its diagnosis requires the physical signs of articular inflammation or the physical or roentgenographic signs of osteoarthritis. The major disorders associated with arthritis (and hence with arthralgia) are summarized in Table 159.2 in the preceding chapter.
Definition: Mastalgia. Mastalgia is the medical term that describes breast pain. This definition includes all types of breast pain no matter the quality or relationship to menstrual periods. Types of Mastalgia. Mastalgia if often broken down into 3 separate categories: