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Parent topics
- Pain [r]: Unpleasant feeling or hurtful sensation that is conveyed to the brain by stimulation of sensory neurons. [e]
- ** [r]: Continuous pain perceived as being in the cranium. [e]
- Neurology [r]: The medical specialty concerned with evaluating the nervous system and the other system that it affects, and the treatment of nervous system disorders. [e]
Subtopics
Treatments
- Acetaminophen [r]: An analgesic antipyretic drug widely used for the treatment of headaches, fever and other minor aches and pains; has no antiinflammatory activity [e]
- Acetylsalicylic acid [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ergotamine [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Triptan [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Metoclopramide [r]: A drug used to prevent the nausea and vomiting caused by cancer chemotherapy, diabetic neuropathy, gastroesophageal reflux, and similar conditions. [e]
- Phenothiazines [r]: Add brief definition or description
- ** [r]: Add brief definition or description
- ** [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Opioid analgesic [r]: Synthetic narcotic that has opiate-like activities, which induces analgesia by mimicking endogenous opioids, at opioid receptors in the brain. [e]
- Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents [r]: Medication other than corticosteroids having analgesic, antipyretic and anti-inflammatory activity due to their ability to inhibit the synthesis of prostaglandins. [e]
- ** [r]: Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug commonly used for the reduction of moderate to severe pain, fever, inflammation and stiffness. [e]
- ** [r]: Azole-based antifungal drug. [e]
- Corticosteroid [r]: Steroid hormones mainly produced by the adrenal cortex. [e]
- Telcagepant [r]: Add brief definition or description (MK-0974)}} an oral antagonist of calcitonin gene-related peptide receptor, may be as effective as zolmitriptan but with less drug toxicity according to a randomized controlled trial.[9]