congenital insensitivity to pain
MONDO:1060232Mondo
Findings
No curated finding names congenital insensitivity to pain yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
A rare hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy characterized by the inability to perceive physical pain from birth. Affected individuals do not feel pain from injuries, burns, or infections and cannot detect harmful levels of heat, cold, or pressure, which can lead to repeated unrecognized injuries, impaired healing, and serious complications.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:1060232), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Where it sits
- Narrower terms (8)
- channelopathy-associated congenital insensitivity to pain, autosomal recessive
- congenital insensitivity to pain syndrome, Marsili type
- congenital insensitivity to pain with hyperhidrosis
- congenital insensitivity to pain with severe intellectual disability
- congenital insensitivity to pain-hypohidrosis syndrome
- hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy type 4
- hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy type 5
- hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy type 7
Other names
1 name
Resolves to: congenital insensitivity to pain
- Also called
- CIP