Neuralgia

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Sharp, severe paroxysmal pain extending along a nerve or group of nerves.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An acute, severe, intermittent pain that radiates along a nerve.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. 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.
  • n. See the adjectives.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. acute spasmodic pain along the course of one or more nerves
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    hurting    pain   
    Form
    neuralgic   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    neurodynia    neuralgy   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    rheumatism    bronchitis    toothache    neuritis    asthma    catarrh    dyspepsia    epilepsy    diarrhea    stomachache