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Hydromorphone

"Hydromorphone" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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An opioid analgesic made from MORPHINE and used mainly as an analgesic. It has a shorter duration of action than morphine.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Hydromorphone" by people in this website by year, and whether "Hydromorphone" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 11 publications over 8 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2005 and 2011 and 2018
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