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Neuralgia

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noun. Sharp, severe paroxysmal pain extending along a nerve or group of nerves.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

noun. A pain, corresponding frequently to the distribution of some one nerve, which is not due immediately and simply to excessive stimulation of the nerve or nerves involved by some gross or extra-nervous lesion, but to a nutritive or other molecular change in the nerves themselves or their central connections.

noun. See the adjectives.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

noun. A disease, the chief symptom of which is a very acute pain, exacerbating or intermitting, which follows the course of a nervous branch, extends to its ramifications, and seems therefore to be seated in the nerve. It seems to be independent of any structural lesion.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

noun. An acute, severe, intermittent pain that radiates along a nerve.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

noun. acute spasmodic pain along the course of one or more nerves

Word Usage

"To the pain thus excited the term neuralgia is commonly applied, or 'tic;' or, if the large nerve running down the thigh be the seat of the pain, 'sciatica.'"

cross-reference

cardiac neuralgia ciliary crural neuralgia facial neuralgia femoropopliteal neuralgia

Form

neuralgic

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

hurting pain

Hyponym

Words that are more specific

sciatica tic douloureux trigeminal neuralgia

Same Context

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Synonym

Words with the same meaning

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