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MeSH Heading: Acute Pain
Tree Number(s): C23.888.592.612.081; F02.830.816.444.176; G11.561.790.444.176
Unique ID: D059787
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D059787
Scope Note: Intensely discomforting, distressful, or agonizing sensation associated with trauma or disease, with well-defined location, character, and timing.
Previous Indexing: Pain (1963-2011)
See Also: Chronic Pain
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)

Acute Pain MeSH Descriptor Data 2026