Pertaining to the awareness or sense of pain: When Mary was injured by falling down from the ladder, she experienced a nociceptive sensation on her leg.

A nociceptive effect is exemplified by a receptive neuron for painful sensations.

A nociceptive feeling denotes a responsiveness, or sensitivity, to noxious stimuli capable of eliciting pain.

An impulse giving rise to sensations of pain: In her medical book, Stella read about the nociceptive impulse being the process of stimulus responsiveness concerning the action of outermost pain-carrying nerve fibres.

A period of extreme stress and increased pain perception through affective processes: The results or effects of nociceptive input are moderated or mediated through a definite brain system.