Structured Summary
Abstract
An unpleasant sensation induced by noxious stimuli which are detected by NERVE ENDINGS of NOCICEPTIVE NEURONS.
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Classification
Broader headings
Narrower headings
- Abdominal Pain
- Acute Pain
- Arthralgia
- Back Pain
- Breakthrough Pain
- Cancer Pain
- Chest Pain
- Chronic Pain
- Earache
- Eye Pain
- Facial Pain
- Flank Pain
- Glossalgia
- Headache
- Intractable Pain
- Labor Pain
- Mastodynia
- Metatarsalgia
- Musculoskeletal Pain
- Neck Pain
- Neuralgia
- Nociceptive Pain
- Nociplastic Pain
- Pain Threshold
- Pelvic Pain
- Postoperative Pain
- Procedural Pain
- Referred Pain
- Renal Colic
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Synonyms
26 entry terms
- Ache
- Pain, Burning
- Pain, Crushing
- Pain, Migratory
- Pain, Radiating
- Pain, Splitting
- Suffering, Physical
- Aches
- Burning Pain
- Burning Pains
- Crushing Pain
- Crushing Pains
- Migratory Pain
- Migratory Pains
- Pains, Burning
- Pains, Crushing
- Pains, Migratory
- Pains, Radiating
- Pains, Splitting
- Physical Suffering
- Physical Sufferings
- Radiating Pain
- Radiating Pains
- Splitting Pain
- Splitting Pains
- Sufferings, Physical
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Aspects Covered
34 allowable subheadings
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, urine, veterinary, virology.
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Indexing Annotation
general; note specifics including precoordinated locational pain terms like ABDOMINAL PAIN; CHEST PAIN, etc.; / diag: consider also PAIN MEASUREMENT but PAIN / diag is probably PAIN / etiol; / physiopathol: PAIN THRESHOLD is also available; congenital absence of pain = PAIN SENSITIVITY, CONGENITAL; differentiate from PAIN PERCEPTION which takes place in the brain
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Pain. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D010146. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D010146
- Pain. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain
- Pain. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q81938