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MeSH Heading: Breakthrough Pain
Tree Number(s): C23.888.592.612.191; F02.830.816.444.394; G11.561.790.444.393
Unique ID: D059390
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D059390
Scope Note: Acute pain that comes on rapidly despite the use of pain medication.
Previous Indexing: Pain (1989-2011)
Public MeSH Note: 2012
History Note: 2012
Date Introduced: 2012/01/01
Last Updated: 2026/01/01

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)

Breakthrough Pain MeSH Descriptor Data 2026