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.
Meaning: Governor of a country or province who rules as the representative of his or her king or sovereign. Classified under: Nouns denoting people. Synonyms: viceroy; vicereine. Hypernyms (viceroy is a kind of...): governor (the head of a state government).