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.
Prefectures of Japan (é½éåºç, todÅfuken) are one of the basic local entities of Japan. There are the 47 subdivisions of the island nation. Prefectures are the governmental bodies of Japan which are larger than cities, towns, and villages.