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Abstract
Aching sensation that persists for more than a few months. It may or may not be associated with trauma or disease, and may persist after the initial injury has healed. Its localization, character, and timing are more vague than with acute pain.
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- Pain, Chronic
- Chronic Primary Pain
- Chronic Secondary Pain
- Widespread Chronic Pain
- Chronic Pain, Widespread
- Pain, Chronic Primary
- Pain, Chronic Secondary
- Pain, Widespread Chronic
- Primary Pain, Chronic
- Secondary Pain, Chronic
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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Indexing Annotation
differentiate from Intractable Pain
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History Note
2012
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- Pain (1993-2011)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Chronic Pain. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D059350. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D059350
- Chronic Pain. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_pain
- Chronic Pain. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1088113