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.
n. 1  1. A territory governed as an administrative or political unit of a country or empire. 2  2. Ecclesiastical A division of territory under the jurisdiction of a metropolitan. 3  3. provinces Areas of a country situated away from the capital or population center.