Neuralgia

[,njʊə'rældʒə] or [nʊ'rældʒə]

Definition

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

Typist: Marvin--From WordNet

Definition

(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.

Inputed by George

Definition

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.

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