Pain and Palliative Care Terms

A drug used in the treatment of chronic pain.

A sedative withdrawn after causing catastrophic birth defects, later brought back under strict control for myeloma and leprosy reactions.

A drug that is used to treat multiple myeloma in patients who have just been diagnosed, and a painful skin disease related to leprosy.

Thoracalgia refers to pain in the chest wall or chest region, a symptom that can stem from muscular, skeletal, or internal organ causes.

Thoracodynia is a clinical term for pain located in the chest wall, arising from causes that range from muscular strain to underlying disease.

Distinctive less for what happens during practice than for how tightly the method and the teaching of it are standardized.

Toluene is a strong smelling industrial solvent whose vapors are toxic to the nervous system and other organs with significant exposure.

An opioid painkiller with a second action on brain chemistry, which accounts for both its usefulness and its unusual risks.

A mental technique used to promote relaxation, reduce stress, and improve quality of life.

A substance that is being studied as a treatment for advanced prostate cancer and for pain caused by prostate cancer that has spread to the bone.

A cone snail venom peptide turned painkiller, which works only when delivered straight into the fluid around the spinal cord.