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.
(mÄ­-trÅpâ²É-lÄ­s) n. 1. A major city, especially the chief city of a country or region: Chicago, the metropolis of the Midwest. 2. A city or an urban area regarded as the center of a specific activity: a great cultural metropolis. 3. Ecclesiastical The chief see of a metropolitan bishop.