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MeSH Heading: Pain, Intractable
Tree Number(s): C23.888.592.612.776
Unique ID: D010148
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D010148
Annotation: usually chronic, so do not coordinate with CHRONIC PAIN
Scope Note: Persistent pain that is refractory to some or all forms of treatment.
Entry Term(s): Refractory Pain
Public MeSH Note: 1974
History Note: 1974
Date Established: 1974/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2017/06/20

Allowable Qualifiers: blood (BL)

cerebrospinal fluid (CF)

chemically induced (CI)

classification (CL)

complications (CO)

congenital (CN)

diagnosis (DI)

diagnostic imaging (DG)

diet therapy (DH)

drug therapy (DT)

economics (EC)

embryology (EM)

enzymology (EN)

epidemiology (EP)

ethnology (EH)

etiology (ET)

genetics (GE)

history (HI)

immunology (IM)

metabolism (ME)

microbiology (MI)

mortality (MO)

nursing (NU)

parasitology (PS)

pathology (PA)

physiopathology (PP)

prevention & control (PC)

psychology (PX)

radiotherapy (RT)

rehabilitation (RH)

surgery (SU)

therapy (TH)

urine (UR)

veterinary (VE)

virology (VI)

Pain, Intractable MeSH Descriptor Data 2025