Definition of neuralgia Neuralgia
neu•ral•gia
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What does neuralgia mean?
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NounPlural: neuralgias |
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| neuralgia - acute spasmodic pain along the course of one or more nerves | ||
| neuralgy | ||
| hurting, pain a somatic sensation of acute discomfort; "as the intensity increased the sensation changed from tickle to pain" | ||
| tic douloureux, trigeminal neuralgia intense paroxysmal neuralgia along the trigeminal nerve | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- neuralgia (n.)
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.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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neuralgia
nū-ral′ji-a, n. pain of a purely nervous character, occurring in paroxysms, usually unaccompanied by inflammation, fever, or any appreciable change of structure in the affected part—(obs.) Neural′gy.—adjs. Neural′gic, Neural′giform. [Gr. neuron, nerve, algos, pain.]
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🔤- neuralgia, noun, singular of neuralgias.
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