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PCA

Term · Oncology and biomedicine · MLC-T-ONC-006403

A method of pain relief in which the patient controls the amount of pain medicine that is used. When pain relief is needed, the person can receive a preset dose of pain medicine by pressing a button on a computerized pump that is connected to a small tube in the body. Also called patient-controlled analgesia.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ONC-006403
FieldOncology and biomedicine
Expansionspatient-controlled analgesia
ReferencesNCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms
Record as JSON
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  "id": "MLC-T-ONC-006403",
  "term": "PCA",
  "field": "Oncology and biomedicine",
  "definition": "A method of pain relief in which the patient controls the amount of pain medicine that is used. When pain relief is needed, the person can receive a preset dose of pain medicine by pressing a button on a computerized pump that is connected to a small tube in the body. Also called patient-controlled analgesia.",
  "expansions": [
    "patient-controlled analgesia"
  ],
  "references": [
    "NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/oncology/pca/"
}

Record 12,761 of 17,717 in Oncology and biomedicine terminology (MLC-0111). Request the full dataset.