Complications of Uncontrolled, Persistent Pain. Persistent, unremitting pain may adversely affect the bodyâs endocrine, cardiovascular, immune, neurologic and musculo-skeletal systems and require aggressive treatment of the pain as well as the resulting complications. By Forest Tennant, MD, DrPH.
The noun PREFECTURE has 2 senses: 1. the district administered by a prefect (as in France or Japan or the Roman Empire) 2. the office of prefect. Familiarity information: PREFECTURE used as a noun is rare.
Simply put, in the US you have states, in Canada you have provinces, in Japan they have prefectures. There are 47 (includin â¦ g some that Japanese insist are not prefectures because they don't use the word.) Prefecture in Japanese is Ken. Chiba-ken, for example, or Aomori-ken. There is also fu, as in Kyoto-fu and Osaka-fu. Plus to, as in Tokyo-to and Hokkaido. fu, to, ken are all administrative units.